Sentence examples for forbid construction from inspiring English sources

Typically, these easements forbid construction, said James Ventres, East Haddam's land use administrator.

Switzerland's foremost political party, the Union Démocratique du Centre UDCC), has launched an aggressive, racist campaign against foreigners and immigrants, now extended to Swiss citizens of the Muslim faith through an initiative to forbid construction of minarets.

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.

The Hawks hit town (actually, they got stuck in traffic around the forbidding construction labyrinth known as Xanadu and arrived late to the arena) one game ahead of the Nets in the race for the eighth and final position in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Conference, but gave it up in the second half of a 125-117 defeat.

Indeed, its traditional association with the royal andriana class led King Andrianampoinimerina (1787 1810) to issue a royal edict forbidding construction in stone, brick or earth within the limits of Antananarivo and codifying a tradition in which only the houses of nobles were constructed from wood, while those of peasants were made from local plant materials.

Delegates will cite as further evidence of Islamophobia the Swiss referendum decision to forbid the construction of minarets on mosques.

The construction of this severe and forbidding building was commissioned in 1458 by the Florentine banker Luca Pitti, a principal supporter and friend of Cosimo de' Medici.

The four N3 battleships were never ordered because the Washington Naval Treaty, an arms limitation treaty under negotiation at the time, forbade construction of any ship larger than 35,000 tons.

But salesmen are forbidden, and construction workers may never be allowed to.

The proposed revisions would undo the most vital protection: forbidding highway construction at historic sites "unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative".

It was approved before the city, in 1983, forbade the construction of such buildings because their awkward proportions made them a blight on neighborhoods.