The phrase "a move to prohibit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or initiatives aimed at banning or restricting something.
Example: "The government has announced a move to prohibit the sale of single-use plastics in an effort to reduce environmental waste."
Alternatives: "an effort to ban" or "a step to restrict".
In a separate move, the committee also rejected a Labour move to prohibit the sale of ready-mixed drinks with a caffeine limit over 150 milligrams per litre, which would effectively ban the tonic wine Buckfast.
Where drug testing was once reactionary – officials would wait for an indication that athletes were using a new drug, then move to prohibit it and then develop a test – officials at organisations like the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) now aim to get ahead of the curve.
The New York Legislature should move to prohibit the placement of people with serious mental illness in isolated confinement, as has been proposed, and Gov. George Pataki should sign the bill.
As the practice fades at the state level, the billion-dollar question is whether the US supreme court will step into the fray and move to prohibit capital punishment on constitutional grounds.
While governmental powers move to prohibit irregular migration, decisions of the highest courts in Australia and Europe have indicated an attempt to limit such executive power by invoking the relevance of international law (Hyndman & Mountz, 2008; Mitsilegas, 2015b).
Garments associated with observant Islam have been a cultural flashpoint in places like France, where a "burkini" controversy erupted during the summer when a string of municipalities moved to prohibit full-body swimwear, with some defying a court ruling against the bans.
In a much-blogged-about episode, Forrester Research, a market-research firm, this month moved to prohibit star analysts from publishing analysis on personal blogs.
But the disclosure that it is moving to prohibit it signals a landmark shift for the N.S.A., which has had nearly unfettered powers to collect data on tens of millions of people around the world, from ordinary citizens to heads of state, including the leaders of Brazil and Mexico.
But the disclosure that it is moving to prohibit it signals a landmark shift for the NSA, which has had nearly unfettered powers to collect data on tens of millions of people around the world, from ordinary citizens to heads of state, including the leaders of Brazil and Mexico.
After E.P.A. officials, during the Obama administration, saw a surge in the number of glider trucks being sold, the agency moved to prohibit any company from manufacturing more than 300 of them per year, effectively killing the industry that had emerged to help sidestep the rules.
