The phrase "a simple prohibition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a straightforward rule or restriction that is easy to understand.
Example: "The sign clearly states a simple prohibition against smoking in the area."
Alternatives: "a basic ban" or "a straightforward restriction".
Some speakers at the event, held at the School's Austin Hall on Nov. 7, urged changes that get to heart of why 14 days was once considered appropriate rather than a simple prohibition.
In particular, a policy implemented in code -- whether a lottery, a first-request-first-served system, or some other method -- might reduce multiple registration attempts more effectively than a simple prohibition against them.
For example, a simple prohibition on most favored nation clauses would prevent cable companies from promising each other the best deals.
First, the solution to complexity is not a simple prohibition of a given technology.
Their message is a simple one: Prohibition (of alcohol) didn't work, and prohibition of marijuana isn't working either.
A simple example of this was the exception during Prohibition for the sacramental use of wine.
International drug prohibition was begun by the United States and we can end it with a simple majority vote in Congress.
Remember, Prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s wasn't so much about booze being evil; it was more of a simple solution to stopping the complex problem of domestic violence and to make life safer for women.
It is also a simple and direct expression of fundamentalists' harkening for the good old days of the early 1800s societal consensus, according to which science and theology were nothing more than simple Baconian induction (arguably, it goes even further back to the Catholic Church's prohibition against Galileo advocating heliocentrism as true).
And that understanding has the potential to carry us a lot further towards effectively addressing a resurgent white nationalism than simple speech prohibition.
With the spread of case law in such conditional formulation, it was eventually discovered that formulation as generalized propositions or prohibitions was a simpler and more logical means of setting up a coherent code of laws than the case-law formulation (e.g., in the Hebrew Decalogue).
