Sentence examples for forbids but from inspiring English sources

A country might storm out of the euro which the treaty forbids, but who could stop a determined government?

Žižek stressed Lacan's account of the Freudian superego, according to which it is not merely an agency that forbids but also one that incites jouissance, an excessive and simultaneously painful kind of enjoyment derived from transgressing the superego's own prohibitions.

The commission says that this patronage would be dispensed not simply on the basis of religion, which the constitution forbids, but because India's religious minorities are, by definition, deprived.

The term "under color of" is used, as I think both the Court and the dissent agree, to sweep within the statute those corrupt exercises of authority that the law forbids but that nevertheless cause damage because the exercise is by a governmental official.

One new provision, which is alarming, concerns the illegality of printing false news, not only "maliciously", as the 1881 law properly forbids, but also through mere "imprudence", which might very well characterize reports made it good faith by editors or journalists, who could now be prosecuted for failing to be right.

But Mr. Clinton would succeed Mr. Kerry not by election, which the amendment forbids, but through Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, which provides that if a president dies, resigns or is removed from office, his powers "shall devolve on the vice president".

God forbid, but you might.

No direct forbidding, but more criticism.

Pregnancy is forbidden, but contraceptives are unavailable.

Motor vehicles are forbidden, but Rashid flouts the law.

That sounds forbidding, but these albums are more approachable than "Nite Flights" and "Tilt".