How To Use Proscribe In A Sentence
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But the Law of Moses under which the Jews, as evidenced by their circumcision, are supposed to live under is very rigid and proscribes up to death for many transgressions.
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Newspapers and television viewing are largely proscribed and inmates are often unable to contact their families for months.
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If we were proscribed we would go underground, and anything that's underground surfaces.
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For example, battery under the common law was a general intent crime requiring the perp's awareness that he is acting in a proscribed manner.
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In some cultures surgery is proscribed.
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International criminal law is a body of international rules designed both to proscribe international crimes and to impose upon States the obligation to prosecute and punish at least some of those crimes.
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In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism.
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Today, the work of Christian teachers should include clear focus on who God is, because tomorrow depends very much on the Church of God today we proscribe the concept.
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The ‘Goldwater’ rule already proscribes specific comments about public figures or others who have not actually been evaluated.
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These changes open the doors to many previously proscribed activities, including logging, road-building, oil drilling and even polluting.
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There are numbers of organisations that have been proscribed.
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But these Acts do not proscribe activities, they simply provide for investigation in appropriate cases.
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The gangs of feral youths that "own" the streets now know that the chances of a policeman catching them in the act of mugging a passerby are almost zero, the chances of any CCTV actually working or producing a decent image or not being used to take photos of cars parked six inches onto a yellow line or one minute into a proscribed period are also nil and even if caught the chances of being charged let alone convicted are somewhat slim and as for having to go to prison for more than six months, the odds are infinitesimal.
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Many Shiite clergymen maintain that birth control is proscribed by Islam.
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But this project went unrealized, and after Caesar's assassination he was proscribed by Mark Antony: his library at Casinum was plundered, but he escaped to live the rest of his life in scholarly retirement.
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We have engaged in disgraceful shenanigans to keep asbestos off the list of proscribed substances under the Rotterdam Convention.
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My neice used to bring them home from the shelter and would have to set her clock to feed them at the proscribed intervals, wipe their little hinnies with a damp washcloth and all that.
Rick Santorum Should Have to Raise Kittens
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Following the models set in lauded tales from "A Christmas Carol" to "Mary Poppins", the four Willoughbys hope to attain their proscribed happy ending too, or at least a satisfyingly maudlin one.
The Willoughbys: Summary and book reviews of The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry.
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Jewish law states that not only is telling gossip forbidden; lending a willing ear is equally proscribed.
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In earlier days, the church proscribed dancing and cardplaying.
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The sale of narcotics is proscribed by law.
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Re, skepticism, Socratic irony and skepticism does not proscribe a transcendent realism, rather, it proscribes our ability to come to positive or positivist terms with any such transcendence.
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Backyard barbecue grills could be proscribed.
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Among the draconian penal laws is Law 71 which states that anyone ‘who calls for the establishment of any grouping, organisation or association proscribed by law’ can be executed.
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On most washdays I use chlorine bleach on several articles whose labels proscribe it, without the slightest damage, and many of these have been receiving chlorine bleach now and then for years.
HOME COMFORTS
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The error lies in the law, or in the judicial interpretation thereof, and no code of army regulations can be made that meets the case, until Congress, like the French Corps Legislatif, utterly annihilates and "proscribes" the old law and the system which has grown up under it.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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They were proscribed following an attack on one of Buddhism's most hallowed places of worship.
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When I commented that you were in error in your use of the word proscribe, I meant exactly that, bit.
Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.
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The Catholic Church neither submits to enthusiasm nor proscribes it, but uses it.
Opus Dei, in Hollywood and Rome
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Revolution, and its betrayal by a regime which both prescribes and proscribes literature, are described in both works.
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The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
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Party officials have suggested they will look to strengthen Tunisia's political and economic ties with fellow Arab-Islamic states in the region and perhaps legalize Islamic banking systems that proscribe interest and relies instead on fees.
Moderate Islamist Party Set to Win Tunisian Vote
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It is dictated, legislated on all levels, with the activities of the human, the natural and the divine all comprehensively proscribed and prescribed by this latter-day god of wisdom, emulating his prototype in "Enki and the World Order".
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I expect for some, the vertiginous image itself may be sufficient to provoke an unwelcome return of barely repressed memories, so perhaps this staple of suspense flicks will be proscribed too.
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The contravention is complete when the conduct occurs for the proscribed purpose whether or not it achieves its objective.
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In Spain, the farthingale and excessive décolletage were proscribed for all but licensed prostitutes in 1639.
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The Bill is unnecessary simply because the government presently has the power to proscribe terrorist organisations.
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During the premodern period, meat was proscribed under the tenets of Buddhism.
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Halakhic legal Judaism views all male and female same-sex sexual interactions as prohibited ... and cannot give its blessing and imprimatur to Jewish religious same-sex commitment ceremonies and weddings, and halakhic values proscribe individuals and communities from encouraging practices that grant religious legitimacy to gay marriage and couplehood.
Warren J. Blumenfeld: LGBT Discrimination And The Promise Of Tikkun Olam
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Laura would most certainly condemn it, as she had proscribed similar thoughts, expressed out loud, in the past.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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I go for a drive with one of those proscribed by the grogshop-keepers of Castleisland the muzzle of a double-barrelled carbine peeps ominously from the "well" of the car.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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The Act proscribes discrimination on the grounds of race.
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However this sort of hokum is not proscribed within the class CBlockbuster, is in fact a widely accepted strategy for achieving resolution.
Ethics and Enthusiasm
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She should have been stopped in her tracks for purporting to answer the question when, in fact, she is saying that I am proscribed from even asking a question about this man, the evidence on whom I gave last week.
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And, as both of them are deeply committed to their religious beliefs, when I was virtually proscribed for my decision by the church leadership they felt it necessary to follow suit.
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The latter include diuretics, cardiac dilators and a substance called pentoxifylline, usually proscribed for memory loss among the aged.
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Most Catholic sacramentals, such as relics, agnus deis and medals, were proscribed as being "papist superstitions.
Death of Elizabeth I
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Animal societies have proscribed behavior, and if you step outside of it too often or get too uppity you are ostracized.
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It does science quite well, actually, and the Space Act, on which appropriations for the agency are based, proscribes just that.
Obama R&D Speech Provides Very Little for NASA - NASA Watch
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Accordingly, he had recourse to the following measures: he knew that Constantius was hated by all the people who held the homoousian faith and had driven them from the churches and had proscribed and exiled their bishops.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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Convention were proscribed as regicides, when the word Jacobin sent a thrill of horror down every respectable spinal chord, the daughter of
The French Revolution A Short History
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Recently some staff refused to collect taxes when one of their superiors tried to proscribe bribery in the ranks.
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Songs of a politically critical character are proscribed.
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But where Social Security established the nidus of a public institution that grew over time, the Senate bill proscribes any such new public institution.
Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?
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Simple circular motion as proscribed by Aristotle did not satisfy the observations.
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Unlike patent, it does not purport to draw bright lines around ideas but proscribes what is, by consensus, objectionable behavior.
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Any such engines configured for use in this missile system would also be proscribed.
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Few deputies positively welcomed the purge of national representatives, and a number who had no special links with the proscribed deputies went out of their way to condemn the deed openly in letters to their constituents.
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More than a few will also tell you that you've not truly lived until you've partaken of certain proscribed herbs while the sun sets.
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Before judgment was rendered, the medical faculty proscribed, in a body, Mesmer’s so-called charlatanism, his tub, his conducting wires, and his theory.
Ursula
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The primary one proscribed monarchs and titled aristocracies Article 1, Section 10 says, "No state shall . . . grant any title of nobility".
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
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He has displeased several in that neck of the woods by announcing that he will not seek to repeal Section 13 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which proscribes hate speech.
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Last week the government released a list of 15 proscribed organisations.
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Others object because they feel the Bible proscribes invoking god while making an oath.
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This final provocation let the central executive to proscribe the committee on 21 September 1956.
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The district court convicted him of violating Espanola Municipal Ordinance Section 70 – 211 (a) (4), which proscribes “[r] esisting or abusing any ... peace officer in the lawful discharge of his duties.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Interesting Case Involving Open Carry, Defense of Property, and Allegedly Resisting Arrest
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To delineate masculinity it was constantly necessary to define and proscribe unmanly behavior.
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Afraid he had not sacrificed in the proscribed manner, he squeezed his eyes shut and called out a prayer to God for deliverance.
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At that time, it was accepted that the ruling authority would proclaim a State religion and proscribe all others.
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It is due to these interests that Article 98 of the RA Constitution proscribes judges to hold any office irrelative to his/her official duties.
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Although advertising directly to consumers is proscribed in the European Union, companies are able to target patients indirectly through disease awareness campaigns, sponsorship of information materials, and press releases.
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Current rules proscribe relationships between soldiers of different rank, or soldiers and officers.
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‘If you proscribe an organisation, you strengthen it’, he said.
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Subsequently when Sulla was in the possession of power and was putting many to death, a man of the class of Libertini, who was suspected of concealing a proscribed person, and for this offence was going to be thrown down the Tarpeian rock, reproached Sulla with the fact that they had lived together for some time in one house; that he had paid two thousand sestertii for his lodgings, which were in the upper part of the house, and Sulla three thousand for the lower rooms; and, consequently, that between their fortunes there was only the difference of a thousand sestertii, which is equivalent to two hundred and fifty Attic drachmæ.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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The former clause proscribed anyone from aiding the practice of prostitution, while the latter required the police to arrest and medically examine suspected prostitutes.
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The government can freeze assets or proscribe groups if a UN Security Council freezing order has been issued.
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Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus - such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones.
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They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.
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The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
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The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
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If anybody in this chamber or outside has any doubt about that conclusion, then I do commend to members this so-called truster's (ph) report, the outstanding issues concerning Iraq's proscribed weapons program, which, as a member of the commission behind UNMOVIC, I've already had the privilege of reading.
CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2003
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Leviticus 20:13 that proscribes the death penalty for same-sex relations is quite related to codes that condemn bestiality, invoke dietary restrictions, and order the wearing of certain fibers.
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Being only a "cookee," [AA] he had no person to wait upon him, but was obliged to submit to the distressing operation of feeding himself in the manner proscribed by the superstitious ordinance; and he was told by the tohunga, or priest, that if he presumed to put one finger to his mouth before he had completed the work he was about, the atua (divinity) would certainly punish his impious contempt, by getting into his stomach before his time, and eating him out of the world.
John Rutherford, the White Chief
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According to Jewish law, nothing made with chametz (any of a number of proscribed cereals and grains, including corn) during passover may be consumed — so in order not to lose sales from observant Jews during that eight day period, a small number of Coca-Cola bottlers make a limited batch of the original Coke formulation, using refined sugar.
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Victimless crimes and indeterminate sentences were thus proscribed.
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Where established governments proscribe popular vengeance in favor of legal prosecution, these revolutions liberated armed antagonists from judicial constraints.
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It is conceivable that this identifier alone could alarm the Attorney General enough to proscribe the organisation.
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In his house the proscribed man, always a ready writer, composed in verse and prose a defence of his position which he termed "Thalia".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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It was more than just symbolic literary resistance because The Satanic Verses is still banned in India, which enjoys the dubious honour of having been the first country to proscribe the book.
Salman Rushdie: a literary giant still beset by bigots | profile
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Revolution, and its betrayal by a regime which both prescribes and proscribes literature, are described in both works.
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Eighteen of the thirty-seven returnees mentioned in this article were among the 308 individuals proscribed by the Banishment Act of 1778, which forbade them forever from returning to Massachusetts.
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The power to proscribe organisations should be vested in more than an individual (the Attorney General) and representatives from banned organisations should have adequate rights of appeal.
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The rule of law proscribes ex post facto legislation.
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The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
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During the twelfth century the sculptural decoration, manuscript illumination, stone towers on churches and stained glass were all successively proscribed.
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Most Catholic sacramentals, such as relics, agnus deis and medals, were proscribed as being "papist superstitions.
Death of Elizabeth I
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The intentional killing of civilians is proscribed, and so are military actions that show a gross disregard for the lives of innocents.
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The schemes of Robert Rubin were really recycled Eisenhower administration thinking, which conveniently proscribes raising taxes and government spending.
Interest Rate Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Using this definition, the attorney-general could proscribe any group that organises a demonstration or strike in which a person was injured or felt endangered.
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The Athletics Federation have banned the runner from future races for using proscribed drugs.
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In the evening, lulled by the callousness of another day of sameness, we cast the issue upon a stack in a proscribed corner of our homes, for consignment to the kabariwalla at the end of the month.
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I remain disgusted that society is still arranged in such a fashion that her "virginity" can still be proscribed and defined as a commodity and valued as such, to the point that she's able to profit off that choice.
Virgin: Objectifying women's bodies for 25 years! - Feministing
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The children of the poor, avoiding the Protestant schools, met in the open air, with only some friendly hedge to protect them from the blast; but they met in fear and trembling, for the hedge-school and its master were proscribed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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A draft of the report circulated to SEC commissioners over the weekend didn't proscribe any policy changes, nor did it attempt to nudge regulators to pursue certain reforms, according to a person who has seen it.
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