Sentence examples for forbidding religious from inspiring English sources

In 2004, the French parliament passed a law forbidding religious symbols in public schools.

Western countries have adopted different strategies for coping, some forbidding religious symbols like the head scarf in schools, others permitting them.

In the end, the revolutionaries won, and wrote an anti-clerical constitution, forbidding religious education, denying the church legal recognition, reiterating the ban on monastic orders and church ownership of land, even denying clergymen the vote.

The French value of laïcité, or secularism in public affairs, also increased tensions between France and the Muslim community by forbidding religious traditions such as wearing veils in public, Lançon said.

It calls on the Albanian Government to repeal laws forbidding religious belief and practice, end arbitrary arrests and torture, assure freedom of expression, protect minority groups and guarantee the right to travel in and outside the country.

The federal government has sued the Rockland County village of Airmont, claiming its zoning code discriminates against Hasidic Jews by forbidding religious boarding schools from operating in the village.

Q: Have you engaged in forbidden religious practices?

Although people join the party more for career reasons these days than for ideological ones, it still officially forbids religious belief among its members.

That is no doubt true, and of course it supports the proposition for which it was summoned, that the Free Exercise Clause forbids religious persecution.

But the Swiss association ProBasket says it follows the rules of FIBA, the world governing body, which forbids religious symbols and head covers.

The Dutch West India Company expressly forbade religious persecution - a stricture against which the autocratic governor Peter Stuyvesant frequently chafed and inveighed.