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Discover LudwigThe phrase "proscribe it" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to the act of forbidding or prohibiting something. Example: "The new policy will proscribe it, ensuring that such behavior is no longer tolerated."
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The best that can be said is that they do not altogether proscribe it.
The practice may be unsound, but the current accounting rules do not proscribe it.
The legislation to proscribe it is already on the books and it should be done right away".
The law is no more capable of encouraging suicide than it is currently able to proscribe it.
Chief Minister Budhadev Bhattacharjee said that he had read the book and that his government had decided to "proscribe" it.
One can believe that a thing is wrong and still not want to legally proscribe it.
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But there is a reason why The Times ethics policy proscribes it.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have all already proscribed it as a terrorist organisation.
From prescribing what art should be about to proscribing it for not behaving properly is, evidently, but a short step.
Once a group is proscribed it is an offence to belong to it, give it money or wear its symbols in public.
It is a modern illusion that an act cannot be prosecuted as a crime just because there is not a specific piece of legislation which proscribes it.
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