Sentence examples for precluded discussion from inspiring English sources

Under Benedict and his immediate predecessor, John Paul II, the Vatican precluded discussion of women's ordination and punished some religious leaders who raised the issue.

In the context of mainstream newspaper reporting, our analysis suggests that marijuana's status as an illicit substance has precluded discussion of strategies to reduce the potential for health and social harms associated with its use.

For example, preoccupation with workload and patient congestion on the wards, only to be solved by an increase in staff numbers precluded discussion of efforts to improve staff competence or service organization to improve efficiency.

In general, if a depression was treated adequately, treatment was not precluded (Fig.  1g).

The relatively small sample size precluded subgroup analysis of age, second-line treatment, and renal function.

For example, one early opponent of women's suffrage suggested that women and men had different metabolic systems katabolic (or "energy-expending") in men, and anabolic (or "energy-conserving") in women that precluded women's effective or informed participation in politics (see Moi 2000, 3 21 for discussion).

This precluded fruit size as the sole criterion to distinguish fruit from knots as discussed earlier.

The tsetse fly has precluded cattle raising.

(In true Minimalist music, one might say, drama is precluded).

But as an incumbent she is constitutionally precluded from running.

(The ground rules of my presence precluded questions).