The phrase "a strict prohibition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a firm or absolute ban on a particular action or behavior.
Example: "The school has implemented a strict prohibition on the use of mobile phones during class hours."
Alternatives: "an absolute ban" or "a firm restriction".
There is a strict prohibition against eating the totem.
Ironically, the Christian Church, encouraged by the arguments of St Augustine, adopted a strict prohibition against suicide precisely because it had become so popular among Christians.
The Ganda people of south-central Uganda have a strict prohibition of sexual activity during the mourning period, while the Cubeo people of the northern Amazon include sexual activity as part of the wake.
The couple's two children — Gherardo, 23, a student at the University of Modena who lives at home, and Olimpia, 22, who lives and studies in Milan — were raised with a series of rules that included a strict prohibition on writing on the walls, most of which are covered with 200-year-old fabric.
In a diverse society where the moral status of fetuses is controversial, a strict prohibition on abortion is likely to be difficult and costly to enforce, and doing so would lead to intense social controversy, alienating people from their own government.
The challenge here is well-illustrated by Carl Cohen's most recent effort, in a debate with James Sterba, to extract a strict prohibition on racial preferences from the Aristotelian principle that "equals should be treated equally" (Cohen and Sterba 2003, 23).
Mr. Dugard also criticized Israel's closing of its border crossings with Gaza as a violation of "the strict prohibition on collective punishment contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention".
In 2009, Amos appeared in uniform at Shirley Dobson's National Day of Prayer Task Force event on Capitol Hill, in clear violation of a number of Department of Defense regulations, including the strict prohibition on the endorsement of a non-federal entity while in uniform.
As well as accompanying an explosion in damaging narcotic use, strict prohibition has gone hand in hand with an equally remarkable increase in recreational dabbling, making criminals of a huge minority of young people along the way.
It teaches the doctrine of the Last Judgment and upholds a strict biblical prohibition on consuming the blood of animals.
Re "Salvador Court Denies Abortion to Ailing Woman, Citing Strict Prohibition" (news article, May 30) and "A Salvadoran at Risk Tests Abortion Law" (front page, May 29): The consequences of absolute abortion bans couldn't be clearer than the potentially fatal circumstances facing "Beatriz," a Salvadoran woman recently denied a lifesaving abortion by her own country's Supreme Court.
