Sentence examples for forbid- from inspiring English sources

So far, we've been spared any plugs for athletes' personal sponsors because the Olympic branding rules forbid them (to keep the field clear for overall advertisers such as Coca Cola and Adidas).

Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.

Furthermore (and Dacre would have been proud of this line), "the ABC has an endless list of progressive journalists and hosts sharing their perspectives and an absence of hosts or programmers who are mainstream or, heaven forbid, conservative".

Would football – heaven forbid – need to end? "You should never think it'll be for ever; we're constantly changing Football Focus," he says.

"When they forbid a Tatar, especially one of such status as Dzhemilev, to enter Crimea … it's interpreted as the start of bigger repressions".

Could they even - heaven forbid! - be sold on eBay?

To incentivise house builders to actually build houses (god forbid), section 106 payments and community infrastructure levy will be waived.

And what will be the hosts' back-up plan if Chris Robshaw – heaven forbid – injures himself between now and mid-September and leaves them short on the openside flank?

Everyone from Tony Abbott to Beyonce must publicly declare their allegiance to women out of fear of being labelled a misogynist, or heaven forbid, causing offence.

Six hours after Tyson and Douglas climbed into the ring, the men who control boxing returned to the Dome to forbid it.

"The most practical way of tackling tax evasion... would be simply to forbid cash transactions above €100.