Sentence examples for legitimately prohibited from inspiring English sources

So, for example, the barroom "sport" of dwarf tossing (where dwarfs who are paid, and are protected with helmets, etc. participate in contests to see who can throw them furthest) might be thought to be legitimately prohibited.

It is trivially true that it is wrong for A to gain from an action that unjustifiably harms or coerces B. And even a libertarian will grant that some harmful exploitation may be legitimately prohibited by the state, if only because it is harmful (or rights violating) rather than because it is exploitative.

Can a government legitimately prohibit citizens from publishing or viewing pornography, or would this be an unjustified violation of basic freedoms?

The basic idea is that the harm principle sets the bar too high and that we can legitimately prohibit some forms of expression because they are very offensive.

These laws legitimately prohibit certain behavior in and around polling places.

However, pornography that involves the simulated abuse of children (for example, consenting adult actors dressed up as schoolgirls) cannot legitimately be prohibited under the harm principle, unless there is good evidence to suggest that consumption of this material causes significant harm to people other than those who consume it: by, for example, causing those who consume it to abuse children.

Even if a person is legitimately ignorant of what he is legally prohibited or required to do, he may still be subject to legal judgment.

What this means is that insofar as a person is legitimately ignorant of what he is morally prohibited or required to do, he is not subject to moral judgment.

The R&A could not legitimately tell Muirfield or Royal St George's that they were prohibited from hosting the Open while golf's governing body operated precisely the same archaic restriction on members itself.

The idea of a petition of right was an established element of Parliamentary procedure, and in addition, had not been expressly prohibited by Charles, allowing the Commons to evade the restrictions placed upon them while still acting legitimately.

Wada's prohibited list includes: "Intravenous infusions and/or injections of more than 50ml per six-hour period except for those legitimately received in the course of hospital admissions, surgical procedures or clinical investigations".