Sentence examples for state prohibition from inspiring English sources

The Anti-Saloon League, founded in 1893, led the state prohibition drives of 1906 13.

She is sentenced to live burial for burying her brother, a traitor, against a state prohibition.

They have looked at the majority's reasoning, in overturning DOMA, and found that it renders state prohibition unsustainable.

In 2004, Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco married 4,000 gay couples at City Hall in defiance of a state prohibition.

The first state prohibition law was passed in Maine in 1846 and ushered in a wave of such state legislation before the Civil War.

The first state prohibition law was passed in Maine in 1846 and ushered in a wave of such state legislation before the American Civil War.

In this case, the court allowed the suit to proceed over whether the weapon maker violated state prohibitions against unfair trade practices.

That decline no doubt is the result, in part, of new state prohibitions and the attention the issue has received in the last few years, said Kate Kennedy, a spokeswoman for the society.

Yet developments and insights emerging over the last 21 years in death and dying jurisprudence provide reason to reinvigorate constitutional challenges to state prohibitions on a physician's providing a lethal substance to a competent, fatally stricken medical patient.

Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, said he and others were also interested in how the Defense of Marriage Act and state prohibitions on gay marriage played out in the courts.

In more than half the nation's cities, spending is outpacing revenue this year, largely because of declining economic conditions, loss of Federal and state aid and state prohibitions on increasing local taxes, the National League of Cities said.