Sentence examples for forbidden to observe from inspiring English sources

According to a Chinese government Web site, women are prohibited from wearing veils, men are not allowed to grow beards and government officials are strictly forbidden to observe the holiday.

"It's as if someone told you to investigate the ecology of a giraffe but you were forbidden to observe them in the wild and confined to a room that contained a relatively small number of giraffe bones".

Chinese residents and visitors, who were forbidden to observe the rituals performed at the shamanic shrine, saw these rites as "different and mysterious" or "secret and alien".

Hundreds of thousands of Kurds gathered in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to observe a holiday that they were long forbidden to celebrate publicly in Turkey.

Even the most purdahed of Saudi women are liable to observe that driving cars, forbidden to them, is quite normal for their sisters not only in distant, decadent America, but also in nearby Kuwait or Dubai.

I would observe only that whereas the prosecution was forbidden to talk about the victim, no such prohibition applied to your writer, and I would have liked to see some of that angle in the story.

Smoking is forbidden, music is forbidden, soccer is forbidden; it is, one fighter declares, "forbidden to expose oneself," and forbidden to hang around in the street.

It was forbidden to refuse.

So universities are forbidden to "over-recruit".

He has been forbidden to leave Ukraine.

He has been forbidden to leave China.