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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are prohibiting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or policies that prevent something from happening or being done.
Example: "The new regulations are prohibiting the use of certain chemicals in manufacturing."
Alternatives: "are banning" or "are forbidding".
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Increasingly, firms are prohibiting employees from participating in class actions.
Laws that allow the very thing they are prohibiting cannot be effective, and they encourage discrimination and endanger citizens.
The company added that its lenders under the credit line are prohibiting Family Golf to make any payment to holders of its 5.75percentt convertible subordinated notes.
One of them is credibility — your adversary's confidence that if it does the thing that you are prohibiting, the thing you seek to deter, the consequences you are threatening will happen".
However, in the last couple of years, one of the apple industry's go-to thinning chemicals, carbaryl, has come under fire from some retailers, which are prohibiting the chemical's use on produce sold in their stores.
But some Internet casinos are struggling to be paid because some United States banks are prohibiting use of their credit cards for Internet gambling, citing the financial risks from gamblers who do not pay their bills.
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