Sentence examples for could not be prohibited from inspiring English sources

Reversing a decades-old rule, a federal appeals court said on Thursday that public television and radio stations could not be prohibited from broadcasting paid political advertisements.

In another instance, he said, a congregation could not be prohibited by local zoning or historic preservation laws from building or expanding a church or synagogue, unless it created an unsafe traffic condition.

In the 1984 Sony Betamax case, the Supreme Court ruled that Sony could not be prohibited from making and selling VCR's because the machines were "capable of substantial noninfringing uses" even though they could be illegally used.

This means that the use of bread and wine, or even the sacrificing of a calf could not be prohibited by the magistrate.

The incident caused such a stir back in London that Queen Victoria asked the Lord Chamberlain if mountaineering could not be prohibited by law.

The issue of slavery had been complicated by the Supreme Court's ruling earlier in the year in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slavery could not be prohibited in the territories.

Finally, Mr. Roberts said, selective enforcement of the parking regulations would generally not be prohibited unless it could be shown that the board was acting in bad faith or in a discriminatory manner.

What is prohibited for a subject, for example, may not be prohibited for a king, chief, or shaman.

Indeed, an "Anfinsen Demon" could exist, in principle, not being prohibited by thermodynamics.

And surely this would be the ultimate instance of achieving that which people thought could not be done — something, even, that was prohibited by the Constitution.

Because the restrictions blocked attempts to change only a specific area of law, the Court held, they could not be considered viewpoint-neutral; the government is prohibited from making such viewpoint-based restrictions of private speech.