Sentence examples for specific prohibition from inspiring English sources

Vermont is the only state that did not adopt any statutes prohibiting or regulating the concealed carry of guns, and has no specific prohibition against carrying guns in churches, so it is, perhaps unintentionally, the first state to allow guns in churches.

He told the Guardian he was disappointed at the UK government's opposition to a specific prohibition.

The proposition placed a specific prohibition in the State Constitution against marriage between two people of the same sex.

William Schmidt, the deputy managing editor, noted a specific prohibition against using Times stationery, business cards or other materials for any purpose other than company business.

There was no specific prohibition of fraudulent conduct in acquiring stock, so the S.E.C. staff members wrote up a proposal that became Rule 10b-5.

So if the original lease did not contain a specific prohibition against smoking or the building of partitions, the renewal lease may not include such riders.

Specific prohibitions denied local officials the power to collect taxes and exact corvée services.

Hence, there were numerous specific prohibitions on acts believed to offend them and observances designed to propitiate them.

Justice Scalia said the Constitution's specific prohibitions against state involvement in treaties and in war "would all be unnecessary if there was some overriding, unexpressed principle in the Constitution that states can't get involved in foreign policy".

Law enforcement agencies in the United States are generally reluctant to police what people think, because of the first amendment and because of specific prohibitions on intelligence-gathering imposed on the FBI by the Department of Justice.

The guidelines range from vague principles, like insisting that advertisements not "jeopardize the social order," to specific prohibitions, like those that forbid the use of state symbols like the flag or national anthem.