Sentence examples for prohibiting practices from inspiring English sources

The Police Department has a ban on profiling, but the proposed law would strengthen it, prohibiting practices that may not be intentionally discriminatory but which have the effect of being so.

The Justice Department, following the advice of many economists, wants to pursue a balancing test -- prohibiting practices that do more to throw barriers in front of Microsoft's competitors than to benefit consumers.

The Federal Reserve and two other banking regulators are set to unveil today one of the most aggressive efforts in decades to crack down on the credit card industry, prohibiting practices such as arbitrarily raising interest rates on outstanding balances.

Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority.

The co-op's noise rules were lenient, prohibiting practice between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. if it disturbed a neighbor.

Shortly afterward, delegates to the N.C.A.A. convention passed a regulation that prohibited practices on the day of a game.

A checklist of recommended and prohibited practices developed by Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing is keyed to the particular circumstances of the region's maritime agriculture.

The law regulates conduct, not speech, the panel reasoned, and lies well within the power of the state to prohibit practices it considers harmful to minors.

If adopted by the board, a four-year ban would cover serious offenses like using human growth hormone, anabolic steroids and masking agents as well as trafficking and conducting blood manipulation and other prohibited practices.

That's why the summit discussions kept returning, in one form or another, to two fundamental issues: expanding coverage and regulating insurance companies to prohibit practices like refusing to insure people with preexisting conditions.

Since 2005, horse racing's Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has made significant progress in implementing a national drug policy, with 30 of the 38 states that conduct thoroughbred racing adopting its rules on medication, testing, prohibited practices and penalties.