Sentence examples for legally proscribed from inspiring English sources

I have friends who are gay; homosexuality is legally proscribed here.

He wrote in the liberal tradition of English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill in arguing that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults should not be legally proscribed.

"The constitution says absolutely nothing about it and the long-standing American traditions of American society have permitted (abortion) to be legally proscribed".

As long as he stuck to his story that saving Lehman was legally proscribed, there wasn't very much more to be said.

Pornography has long been condemned and legally proscribed in the belief that it depraves and corrupts both minors and adults and that it leads to the commission of sex crimes.

The core ideas of legal positivism are that law is essentially a matter of social fact and that it bears at most a contingent connection with moral norms: many actions that are legally proscribed (or prescribed) can nonetheless be moral (or immoral).

One can believe that a thing is wrong and still not want to legally proscribe it.

Codified instructions proscribing dos and don'ts ifs and thens.

Often a person will have prudential reasons to do so, and she may have moral obligations to perform or not perform specific acts independent of their being legally required or proscribed, as in the case of forbearing from murder.

Actions not proscribed by legislation are just that: legally permissible rather than morally unimpeachable.

He proscribed male homosexuality.