[ UK /pɹəhˈɪbɪt/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊˈhɪbət/ ]
VERB
  1. command against
    I forbid you to call me late at night
    Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
    Dad nixed our plans
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How To Use prohibit In A Sentence

  • If you have more than the duty-free allowance or prohibited goods, you go through the red channel and declare them to a customs officer.
  • I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
  • There is no law that prohibits the financial manager from introducing data which are not in the company accounts. Principles of Corporate Finance
  • With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
  • Police say the weapons were seized as it is suspected that they breach the 1982 Firearms Act, which prohibits the selling of readily convertible blank firing weapons.
  • (Under the Indian constitution nontribal people are prohibited from directly acquiring land in certain parts of the country, so the government must obtain it on their behalf and sell it to the companies.) India's Dirty War
  • Non-governmental organizations were formed to oppose the pumping, and in 2001 the federal government launched an investigation into the company on the grounds it was violating constitutional prohibitions on demineralizing water.
  • The amendment would bar the Interior Department from prohibiting individuals from legally carrying firearms inside national parks and wildlife refuges.
  • I noticed a tap for a local microbrew called Prohibition Ale, brewed by Speakeasy Brewery.
  • In addition, the convention seeks to impose an affirmative duty on states to prohibit, and perhaps prevent, mercenarism. David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 2
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