How To Use Proscription In A Sentence

  • What's with the proscription on frying in the brownstone, anyway?
  • There are no provisions for banned passengers to see the accusatory information or contest their proscription.
  • Unless, and I’m only going out on a limb here, your proscription is totally arbitrary. The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar
  • I actually intended “enormity” in this post to evoke primarily a sense of size and then to also take advantage of the secondary meaning to suggest that the proscription is bad; it’s easier to replace the word with “immensity” than with “wickedness” in my sentence. Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
  • The proscription against physicians talking about themselves with patients comes from several different traditions.
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  • A terrible list of victims, called the "proscription," because it was posted up in the forum, was prepared. Roman life in the days of Cicero
  • But these stories contain much more than moral visions and proscriptions.
  • The song, from which I removed the family name, was published in the 1890s, and bewailed the loss of the family name, in the 17th century, by Royal proscription.
  • venality," had quite as much to do on the part of those who wished to perpetuate the government of disloyalty, proscription, and persecution as on the part of those who desired to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," and to place the Government of Massachusetts, like that of the other New England Colonies, upon the broad foundation of equal and general franchise and religious liberty. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
  • By the way, there is no requirement from the UN Security Council for a general proscription power to be enacted.
  • But with it would also come the the Christian proscriptions and hence need for encryption.
  • Caesar had called Catiline to account for his doings at the time of the proscription, and knew his nature too well to expect benefit to the people from a revolution conducted under the auspices of bankrupt patrician adventurers. Caesar: a Sketch
  • Historically, proscription has been a tool of political repression, not law enforcement.
  • The unpopular cause of the Beni-Umeyyah, who were detested for the murder of the grandsons of the Prophet under the second of their line, was lost in a single battle; and the death of Merwan, the last khalif of the race, was followed by the unsparing proscription of the whole family. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
  • But instead of noting this as evidence against the made-up preposition-proscription, she embarrassedly apologized for it. 2010 September « Motivated Grammar
  • His essential concern is that rampant materialism, unhindered by any generally accepted ethical proscription, will degrade the natural environment.
  • With respect, I think you are drawing a far too narrow proscription.
  • She spoke about "Hallal" food proscription, which is the equivalent of Jewish "Kosher" food law. PERSONAL NEWS: Bourgeois Sacramento, the Interconnected Globe & 24 Hour Fitness (20 May 2006)!
  • But that description of my mission is not a proscription for your article.
  • The offences under sections 11 to 13 are all direct consequences of proscription.
  • In May 1794 the Dublin Society was included in the wave of proscription which was then afflicting most anti-government organizations.
  • Is it "proscription" in saying to another man, "I will not vote for you? Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
  • The practice of dissection had stopped altogether, chiefly due to contemporaneous religious proscriptions.
  • He also suggested the government remove the entire part concerning the proscription of local organisations found to be endangering national security.
  • But what had he done to be singled out for this terrible proscription of The People? THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
  • There is no proscription in Chinese laws and regulations concerning the legal status of condominium association.
  • On proscription, the Attorney General can still ban political organisations, but subject to disallowance by the House of Representatives or the Senate.
  • And for all its military ventures, justified and not, since 1945, the United States had never repudiated the charter's proscription of pre-emption.
  • It has relaxed its longstanding proscriptions against budget deficits; it also has abandoned its taboo against lending to countries that have defaulted on external obligations.
  • Many Islamic states for reasons of religious proscription have no such debate.
  • 5The proscription against women talking found fertile ground in cloistered life because silence was one essential element of the monastic environment. 11 The absence of sound was an important monastic practice and the presence of silence accentuated the sounds that did exist. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • Partly such energising is art's responsibility, one that works, by means of what WG Sebald calls "keeping faith with unsocial, banned language", to question, understand and, with any luck, transcend the proscriptions and the inarticulacies of whatever time we happen to live in. Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am'
  • Historically, proscription has been used for political repression.
  • Since the very vast majority of UCMJ defined sodomy is performed by heterosexuals, as long as the proscription is uniformly enforced — it would be fine — many couples, gay and straight, get along fine without sodomy. The Volokh Conspiracy » Closer and closer
  • Such research suggests that the proscription concerning the recourse to ethnographic particulars is honoured more by some discourse analysts than others.
  • `I know of no legal injunction, Talmudic proscription, papal Bull or other caveat pertaining to the playing of music on Wednesday. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • Cunning plans, devious stratagems, state-of-the-art conventional forces, and legal and moral proscriptions, can all be helpful.
  • Tantra set out ritual practices, religious proscriptions, yogic techniques, and philosophical doctrine.
  • Virginia would no longer suffer such state prescriptions or proscriptions of religion.
  • `I know of no legal injunction, Talmudic proscription, papal Bull or other caveat pertaining to the playing of music on Wednesday. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • Now some of the mysterious proscriptions in chapter eleven of Leviticus become more intelligible.
  • Proscription is designed to outlaw organisations deemed a threat to national security.
  • But I disregard this proscription, and call Hardenberg to my side. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
  • And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.
  • There was virtually no moral or legal proscription against drinking until after the War of Independence. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Guilt is the operation of law, a proscription by law, upon conduct.
  • Oblivious to carb counts, I ended up following the main proscription of popular low-carb diets: no refined carbohydrate foods.
  • And by that I mean anti-homosexuality have their roots in antiquity, and are linked to religious proscriptions against certain sex acts and are thus unconstitutional because it violates the whole no establishment of religion in government thing. Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage.
  • However, what would her proscription there have been?
  • Many police departments attempt to impose ethical standards and effective policing through policy, proscription, and punishment, " O'Donnell says, arguing that this approach is flawed.
  • And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.
  • Therefore he decides that although the First Amendment forbids Congress to abridge political speech, that proscription is somehow superseded by Congress's right to, in Breyer's words, "inhibit" some "speech opportunities" in the name of fine-tuning "a democratic conversation. Mr. Breyer's 'Modesty'
  • Cicero answers: "Hoc turpe Cnaeus noster biennio ante cogitavit: ita Sullaturit animus ejus, et diu proscripturit;" "so he apes Sylla and longs for a proscription. Caesar: a Sketch
  • His work encodes and decodes physical and cultural landscapes in ways that challenge the assumptions, proscriptions, and prohibitions built into human environments.
  • Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution. Ulysses
  • But its proscriptions make plain the recklessness that characterises imperialist policy.
  • The entire proscription against eating pork was explained to me by a Muslim fellow I teach at school with. Think Progress » Maryland Foster Agency Won’t Allow Muslim Mother To Foster A Child
  • The inmates were in wonderment and consternation, and, conduplicated evil! they could make no inquiry for one who lay under the ban of a bloody proscription. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
  • Religious opposition to coffee drinking resulted in political proscription a number of times during the sixteenth century.
  • Prostitutes plied their trade free of legal or moral proscriptions. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Deep down inside, staying alive (a biological imperative) took precedence over social proscriptions against cannibalism.
  • The house had been confiscated by Octavian during the wave of proscriptions in the aftermath of the Battle of Philippi from the family of Quintus Hortensius, the famous orator and great rival of Cicero who had amassed a fortune from his legal career and subsequently bequeathed the villa to his daughter Hortensia and son Quintus Hortensius Hortalus. Caesars’ Wives
  • He also quoted National Institutes of Health bioethicist F.G. Miller, who argued in the Journal of Medical Ethics that ethical proscription against killing by doctors is "debatable.
  • Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
  • Op Ed: Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
  • But this push is neither a proscription or a requirement for the latter to dominate economic development, or even the socialization process itself.
  • But police arrested Rahman on a "fraudulence" charge following a night long siege at the Desh office in Dhaka hours after the local administrative chief and district magistrate ordered the proscription on June 1. Zee News : India National
  • These catholic or papist communities survived and developed by resistance to legal proscription by penal laws, eventually lifted in the late 18th and early 19th cents.
  • If I were to speculate on the shellfish and scavengers, I would tend to cite the same reasons for the proscription. Think Progress » Maryland Foster Agency Won’t Allow Muslim Mother To Foster A Child
  • Article 23b of the Hague Regulations, signed by the U.S. and other nations in 1907, prohibits assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy's head, as well as offering a reward for an enemy 'dead or alive'. Blake Fleetwood: Did We Save Bin Laden From a "Fate Worse Than Death"?
  • Whether done by the Attorney General or a judge proscription should not be allowed.
  • But what had he done to be singled out for this terrible proscription of The People? THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
  • There should, in short, never be a blanket proscription of expression.
  • Case examination also provided an opportunity to reintroduce values into the curriculum, despite their proscription in the ranks of behaviorally oriented texts.
  • There is also a proscription against any form of harassment.
  • Although I agree with none of these proscriptions, I have been obediently observing them. "
  • November 17th, 2009 5: 33 pm ET its about time they start to look at jobs and stop the stupidy with the bailout healthcare (which has nothing tondo with care costs and proscriptions just ins. so great job, not) but heck it took the pres 2 months to get a dog cant work to fast I might miss something. shmeckel Hoyer: Dems plan vote on jobs bill before Christmas
  • Both sets of norms rest ultimately upon a fundamental principle of proscription concerning the infliction of militarily ' unnecessary suffering '.
  • This is both a trite platitude and a profound proscription.
  • Such considerations motivated the SETI group at the International Academy of Astronautics to reject a proscription of transmissions to the sky.
  • The ruling also does not override state proscriptions on funding to private or religious schools.
  • Je me suis imposé jusqu'ici silence parce que je savais, d'un homme qui approchait le tyran de la France, qu'il avait formé une liste de proscription. Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
  • And even if the courts were to countermand a proscription order, the damage done to the organisation during the period of proscription could be critical.
  • Dr. Pipa did not shun away from the traditional understanding of Isaiah 58: 13-14 and its proscription of worldly employments and recreations.
  • The proscription for economic stimilus under the current economic situation becomes emplacement of a two (2%) percent tariff, reemplacement of Corporate and Business taxes, and sharp reduction of Government expenditure (I live for the day when this expenditure is less than 14.3% of GDP). Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The name of Middleton was unpopular, and his proscription very naturally tempted me to peruse his writings and those of his antagonists.
  • Personally, I am strongly opposed to proscription in any form.

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