Sentence examples for could not prohibit from inspiring English sources

He objected only to Taney's pronouncement that Congress could not prohibit slavery in American territories.

Indeed, Nebraska conceded at oral argument that "the state could not prohibit the D&E procedure".

Cities, towns and villages had previously been able to limit some personal watercraft use but could not prohibit their use.

In 1877 the Supreme Court ruled in Hall v. DeCuir that states could not prohibit segregation on common carriers such as railroads, streetcars, or riverboats.

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, writing for the majority, voided the Missouri Compromise by arguing that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.

Thus in 1995 the court said that Congress could not prohibit guns in or near elementary and secondary schools, because this usurped local authority to make decisions about what activity should be made criminal.

You couldn't prohibit it, the way you could prohibit Solzhenitsyn".

A board generally could not entirely prohibit the leasing of units, Mr. Greenstein said, unless the bylaws contain a provision giving it the power to do so.

During her first class after the law took effect, she said, her English literature students discussed the rules and she explained how she could not legally prohibit guns in class, or even ask who had them.

Urea could not only prohibit the hydrolysis of Bi(NO3 3·5H2O, but also inhibit the growth of (001) plane, leading to the formation of BiOCl and (BiO 2CO3 nanosheets with dominant {001} facets.

The court upheld the Times and ACLU in the New York Times Co. v. United States ruling, which held that the government could not preemptively prohibit the publication of classified information and had to wait until after it was published to take action.