Sentence examples for a proscription from inspiring English sources

A course in constitutional law would teach them that the Tenth Amendment limits federal officials' ability to order around local governments–a proscription that applies to U.S. Bankruptcy Court judges.

In fact, the concept of the general will also implies a proscription against despotism.

Thirty-seven state constitutions contain a proscription against public financial support for religion.

Without a proscription on child labour, the limits on what is permissible are likely to become blurred and then extended.

Building rules include a proscription against putting window treatments outside those scrims, so that from the street the windows all read the same way.

The outlawing of "jokes" implying Scots eat only deep-fried Mars bars and scorn salads by means of a Proscription of Hate Speech (Scotland) Act?

Some have constructed a taboo (a social and a moral proscription) around vaccination; in Benin, a taboo is often an object that must not be touched or an idea that must not be questioned.

Amid jubilant celebrations by the Iranian group's supporters in London, Paris and Iraq, where 3,800 members have lived since 2003 under American military guard at a vast desert encampment outside Baghdad, the group said it would seek to overturn a similar proscription as a terrorist group by the 27 nations of the European Union.

Because even a postviability proscription of abortion would be invalid absent a health exception, Nebraska's ban on previability partial-birth abortions, under the circumstances presented here, must include a health exception as well, since the state's interest in regulating abortions before viability is "considerably weaker" than after viability.

For example, Mexican-Americans never had to overcome a cultural proscription against intermarriage.

There should, in short, never be a blanket proscription of expression.