While "courtroom histrionics are limited or circumscribed by the judge," he said, "the only proscription in the theater is the script and the director".
Maybe I am missing it, but I don't see any proscription in the Constitution, federal statute or judicial ethics guidelines for nominees to discuss whether they believe a right to privacy exists in the Bill of Rights or if the death penalty is consistent with the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment (both settled Supreme Court precedents).
Trying to bolster his waning power, Apokaukos began a series of proscriptions in the capital, and even ordered a new prison constructed for political prisoners.
Friends of mine have argued that the Dalai Lama doesn't really look askance same-sex relationships, that he has no choice but to uphold his tradition's dictates; and that maybe the Dalai Lama is just stuck with the old texts' proscriptions in the same way that a Catholic, say, must deal with Thomas Aquinas.
Whatever the merits of the Court's per se rule, however, there is no need to propound such a blanket proscription in this particular case.
It's unthinkable that a government founded on the idea that Cubans should own Cuba will lift its proscription, in place since the revolution, on nonresidents owning Cuban property.
The dictator Sulla published proscription lists in the Forum in 82 BCE which gave the public an open license to attack certain offenders deemed enemies of the state.
Once Lashkar has been suppressed, many Pakistanis say, India will demand the proscription in Pakistan of any group that tries to join the "freedom struggle" in Kashmir -- and, relieved of armed confrontation, will persist in refusing any move toward self-determination.
Sulla was elected dictator and, while Italy and all the provinces except Spain were quickly reduced, began a reign of terror (the "proscriptions"), in which hundreds of his enemies or those of his adherents were killed without trial, while their property went to enrich him and his friends.
Indeed, Calvin's religious proscription against jewelry in the 16th century spurred the development of the beautiful decorated watches that built Switzerland's enduring reputation.
He (like his brother) died in December 43, in the proscription of the Second Triumvirate.
