Sentence examples for prohibited only from inspiring English sources

In 1982, Congress amended the Act to overturn the Supreme Court case Mobile v. Bolden (1980), which held that the general prohibition of voting discrimination prescribed in Section 2 prohibited only purposeful discrimination.

The old assault weapons ban prohibited only firearms that had two or more military-style characteristics.

Municipal prosecutors had previously been prohibited only from defense work in their own town.

Kitna said he thought the rule prohibited only the logos of companies that are not official N.F.L. sponsors.

N.S.A. listening in on ordinary Europeans is perfectly legal under United States law; the agency is prohibited only from snooping on Americans without court authorization.

Mr. Romero said his lawyers had advised him that he could sign the certification in good faith because it prohibited only knowing employment of those listed.

League policy prohibits only "metal or other hard objects that project from a player's uniform, including from his shoes".

As written, the code prohibits only "chickens, geese, ducks and other fowl and domestic birds used for food purposes".

But in the belief that most adults are suitably skeptical about promotional puffery, Congress has tried to prohibit only the most blatantly false or explicitly misleading claims.

However, the Florida Supreme Court sided with the government, holding that the Fifth Amendment's anti-extortion rule prohibits only outrageous exactions of land, not money.

The distinction is important in discrimination law because the court has interpreted the Constitution's equal-protection guarantee as prohibiting only intentional discrimination.