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Legislation neither explicitly forbade it (except in so far as it forbade murder) nor enshrined it as a right.

He also said religious reasons forbade the party from sending members to Lebanon's neighbour.

Her grandparents forbade her to look down at her shoes or make subservient gestures when talking to white people.

They could not tell her why, apart from that the government of India forbade her to leave the country.

Butterflies have been considered to be human souls in many eras and cultures: in 17th-century Ireland, an edict forbade the killing of white butterflies because they were regarded as the souls of children.

To ensure an adequate supply of building materials in a region of stoneless wetlands, Peter forbade construction in stone anywhere else in Russia.In the end, Peter got his comeuppance from nature: a flash flood nearly drowned him in 1721 on Nevsky Prospekt, St Petersburg's main street.

In the run-up to the election, Mauricio Funes, the outgoing president, used the airwaves to slam Arena, even though electoral rules forbade that.Given the narrowness of the results, it is hardly surprising that Mr Quijano has challenged them.

After he forbade the army to take part in an athletics contest last month because the Maoists' former army, currently corralled under UN supervision, was also to take part, the government asked General Katawal to explain himself on all three issues.

After Japan's defeat in the second world war, America foisted on it a pacifist constitution that limited its forces to the role of self-defence and forbade it to send them abroad.

At last, after many accidents, mostly fatal, the USAF forbade serving more than 12 hours on five-minute status.

The resolution forbade trade in missile technology with North Korea and called for a halt to missile testing.

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