Sentence examples for general prohibitions from inspiring English sources

He said that aside from some general prohibitions against false and misleading ads, there were few restrictions that state bar associations could place on advertising.

In Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, the court held that the ATCA applies only to violations of international norms that are "specific, universal, and obligatory," and it determined that general prohibitions against arbitrary arrest and detention did not meet that standard.

The list ranged from general prohibitions ("No negative news allowed on the front pages") to microediting (delegates to the congress should not be described as "thundering," which has a slang connotation of ridiculousness).

The reason for these general prohibitions is rooted in a tactic shrouded in secrecy: The United States has been seeding battlefields with improvised exploding ammunition, part of a large-scale project intended to undermine the Taliban that can have grisly unintended effects.

Fourth, WTO rules include general prohibitions on using domestic regulations and taxes for protectionist purposes.

Producers D and E do not claim general prohibitions on antibiotics; we refer to these producers and their products as "conventional".

Congress amended various provisions, such as the preclearance requirement and Section 2's general prohibition of discriminatory voting laws, to prohibit discrimination against language minorities.

In 1982, Congress amended the Act to overturn the Supreme Court case Mobile v. Bolden (1980), which held that the general prohibition of voting discrimination prescribed in Section 2 prohibited only purposeful discrimination.

Back in 1960, 30 states had laws in place that prohibited advertisements regarding birth control and 22 states had some general prohibition on the sale of contraceptives.

In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books, although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus remained.

Is the general prohibition justified?