Sentence examples for imposing a prohibition from inspiring English sources

When I asked him if he and his wife had allowed their children to trick-or-treat on Halloween — many devout Christian parents object to the supposed pagan origins of the ritual — Carter said that they had banned trick-or-treating for a while but, under pressure from their children, had ultimately relented (while nonetheless imposing a prohibition on certain costumes).

In 1992 it prohibited clergy-led prayers at public-school graduation ceremonies, but said nothing about student-led prayers.Even in this latest judgment, Justice Stevens observed that the constitution did not "impose a prohibition on all religious activity in our public schools", or prohibit "any public-school student from voluntarily praying at any time before, during, or after the school day".

"By no means," he said, did the Constitution "impose a prohibition on all religious activity in our public schools" or stop "any public school student from voluntarily praying at any time before, during, or after the school day".

A Wales Office spokesperson said: "There are no firm proposals at present for the assembly to legislate to impose a prohibition on smacking.

As long as rich-country governments insist on imposing an unenforceable prohibition on cocaine consumption, Andean governments will continue to be faced with the thankless task of trying to repress market forces.

A UN convention, reaffirmed in 2009, imposes a blanket prohibition on drugs.

The Ethics Committee was apparently applying a rule in its ethics manual that imposes "a broad prohibition against members, officers or employees deriving financial benefit, directly or indirectly, from the use of their official position".

Calling on the Security Council to impose a global prohibition on arms sales, he added: "The facade of her prosecution is made more monstrous because its real objective is to sever her bond with the people for whom she is a beacon of hope and resistance".

It said it imposed "a categorical prohibition on bail that applies to hundreds of charged felony offenses, including nonviolent offenses that often result in noncustodial sentences".

If toxins are shown to exceed these limits, the FSA communicate to the local authority of the relevant infected beds, who can impose a temporary prohibition order, which closes the beds to harvesting until daily tests have returned negative results for two consecutive weeks [ 15].

The continued immigration of Kanakas provoked hot debate, which was not resolved until after federation, when the young commonwealth imposed an absolute prohibition.