Sentence examples for avoid the prohibition from inspiring English sources

He is now far less widely known in English than in translations and adaptations, both linguistic and cultural – as when a Parsi Gertrude drinks poison in a glass of milk to avoid the prohibition on alcohol, an Indian Sebastian and Viola are separated when a railway bridge collapses into a river, and in South Africa a cold June is substituted for a freezing winter.

Banks could also be hurt as investor loans to buy stocks, disguised as mortgages to avoid the prohibition on these loans, go bad with a stock price collapse.

Cuomo is pushing for a tighter definition of "assault weapon" to eliminate loopholes in the state's ban, which allows guns and accessories to be purchased separately so as to avoid the prohibition.

(The free I.D.s are required by law to avoid the constitutional prohibition against poll taxes).

A sukuk is structured to avoid the Islamic prohibition on interest payments.

Canada will also end an excise tax of 80percentt, imposed after Sports Illustrated tried to avoid the split-run prohibition by transmitting copy across the border via satellite and printing a local edition in Canada.

The bait that they have been wise to avoid involves the prohibition of abortion after 20 or 22 weeks of pregnancy.

In recent years, hundreds of frail Jews have turned to intravenous feeding on Yom Kippur, which begins Tuesday at sundown and ends 25 hours later, to avoid violating the prohibition against eating on the holiest days of the Jewish calendar.

The Supreme Court itself said just that in 1990 in Employment Division v. Smith, ruling that a Native American tribe could not invoke its religious beliefs in peyote use to avoid the state's criminal prohibition on smoking peyote.

The subpoena, however, raised the possibility that the government had found a new tool to stop the dissemination of secrets, one that could avoid the all but absolute constitutional prohibition on prior restraints on publication.

To avoid the devastating economic impact such a prohibition would cause, the department adopted emergency regulations that increased the fluke size limit to 18 inches.