Any reference to birthdays is forbidden because of the pain it might cause children of Jehovah's Witnesses, who don't celebrate them.
In a conversation first reported by The Poughkeepsie Journal, Mr. Braun was told that buying wind power was forbidden because of the price.
The secret of the porcelain was introduced by a workman from Saxony, but when the town became part of France in 1766, its manufacture was forbidden because of royal edicts in favour of the Sèvres factory.
There's Melissa and Mike, two sergeants who got married inside the Fort Dix chapel a month before we deployed — so in love, yet forbidden, because of fraternization policies, even to hold hands in front of other soldiers.
In 1739 Brooke wrote a celebrated drama, Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country, performance of which was forbidden because of the supposition that Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister, was depicted in the part of the villain.
Timber was forbidden because of sanitation requirements; the cast-iron beams spanned 9.7 metres (32 feet) with 3-metre (10-foot) cantilevers on either side, and the hollow cast-iron columns also served as roof drains.
He falls in love with a dazzling engineer, Rita Walicki, but finds she is only interested in winning the right to go down into the mine, where women are forbidden because of the superstition that they will bring bad luck.
Among adherents of indigenous religions, even if the prayer of request is predominant, they are seized with the feeling of fear and trembling before the numen (spiritual power) of all that is mana (endowed with the power of the sacred or holy) or taboo (forbidden because of association with the sacred).
Publishers like to point out that in Egypt even such timeless works as "1,001 Nights" and the equally salacious Abbasid-era poetry of Abu Nawas are officially forbidden because of their content -- although copies can generally still be found in libraries.
I am also forbidden, because of the laws that hold in the United States, to discriminate in hiring on the basis of age or race.
