Sentence examples for seeking to prohibit from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama's campaign filed a lawsuit in federal court, seeking to prohibit the Michigan Republican Party from using foreclosure lists to single out and challenge voters.

"The plaintiffs are seeking to prohibit enforcement of the Solomon amendment," said Michael Chagares, chief of the civil division of the United States attorney's office in Newark.

The suit seeking to prohibit CommonWealth's stock offering, a draft copy of which was filed with regulators, is expected to be filed in a Maryland state court on Wednesday morning.

Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer of New York said the states, including New Jersey, were seeking to prohibit Publishers Clearing House from using current promotions and for it to pay unspecified restitution.

Local residents and state lawmakers had sued seeking to prohibit Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne from putting on Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi," arguing that taxpayer money should not be used to subsidize an attack on religion.

Eric R. Brown, a lawyer for the union, said it planned to file a charge with the State Board of Labor Relations that the town's actions seeking to prohibit the union from speaking out represented bad-faith bargaining.

In some countries, religious leaders may seek to prohibit messages they deem to be blasphemous.

The prosecutor's office has also sought to "prohibit T.I.

In the United States, online businesses like Google sought to prohibit operators from charging online businesses to carry its services.

"We will contend that the Solomon amendment is constitutional and will seek to prohibit any limitation on its enforcement".

It is 55 years since the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs sought to prohibit the non-medical use of narcotics globally.