Sentence examples for had long prohibited from inspiring English sources
The Screen Actors Guild, one of the actors' unions, had long prohibited talent agencies from producing motion pictures, because of the inherent conflict of interest in simultaneously being the agent and the employer.
That collection occurred under 12333 rules, which had long prohibited the N.S.A. from sharing raw information gathered from the surveillance it governed with other members of the intelligence community before minimization.
Nebraska had long prohibited abortions after the point of fetal viability, usually about 22 weeks of pregnancy, while both the rhetoric and the graphic images displayed during the legislative debates portrayed "partial-birth abortion" as the gruesome killing of babies near full-term delivery.
The Pentagon had long prohibited veterans from receiving disability pay in addition to their military pensions.
Federal standards have long prohibited the inappropriate use of antipsychotics in nursing homes.
States have long prohibited some convicted felons and people committed involuntarily from having firearms.
YouTube, for example, has long prohibited designated terrorists from having their own channels.
A city Education Department regulation has long prohibited religious organizations from using school buildings for worship services.
To limit the cities' debt, Beijing has long prohibited municipalities from issuing bonds to finance government projects — as American cities do as a matter of course.
The latest is a boomlet in state laws requiring divestment from Iran.Federal law has long prohibited Americans from doing direct business with Iran.
The Justice Department has long prohibited defendants, except in the most unusual circumstances, from pleading guilty to a crime without admitting or denying the charges.
