Sentence examples for established prohibition from inspiring English sources

In the early 20th century, no one really understood the newly established prohibition on drugs.

The movement saw the passage of anti-drinking laws in several states and peaked in its political power in 1919 with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established prohibition as the law of the entire country but which was repealed in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment.

Using forged signatures, Means also began selling whiskey-withdrawal permits, which allowed the holder to legally purchase alcohol from dispensaries licensed under the Volstead Act, the legislation that had enacted the Eighteenth Amendment and established Prohibition.

In the case of missile defense, that would be the ABM treaty; concerning stem cell research, the established prohibitions against using and destroying embryonic human life for research purposes.

THIS Tuesday, Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club, the legendary watering hole that was established during Prohibition and closed in 1965, will live again at the New-York Historical Society.

Mr. Langlais of the Division of Liquor Control in Connecticut explained that the tavern license, as it was established after Prohibition, started to be too restrictive for tavern owners in the 1970's.

Reformers associated with the Progressive movement eventually drove the open-city government from office and established a prohibition against the sale and consumption of alcohol that lasted from 1916 to 1933.

Not to oversimplify things, but the Eighteenth Amendment (which established national prohibition) made a sizeable portion of the population criminals overnight.

The Framers weren't just belaboring the point in twice prohibiting the receipt of emoluments - rather, the two provisions established separate prohibitions aimed at different evils.

The deadlock in the green-tea business, caused by the action of the United States in establishing a prohibition against the importation of colored teas, continues and threatens to deprive the country of the marketing of this year's supply of tea.

We interpret this as public demand for the government to enforce the already existing smoking prohibitions and regulations, to establish total prohibitions in any other public places including restaurants/bars, and to totally ban tobacco advertisement, direct and indirect, and to ban tobacco promotion in any form.