Sentence examples for under prohibition from inspiring English sources

Under Prohibition people could be imprisoned for life for consuming alcohol.Puritanism continues to stalk the country in new guises.

Under prohibition, the flossiest bars didn't cost much to build, because the management realized there was some threat of impermanency.

According to Census mortality statistics, the national homicide rate jumped 40 percent under Prohibition; after it was repealed in 1933, murder rates plummeted.

The average American under prohibition is secret, devious adept in the use of signals & passwords, & immensely resourceful about meeting clandestinely with his fellows.

The duty of all to whom the conditions under prohibition seem the most important concern of the nation is plainly to vote for Alfred E. Smith.

After two chaotic decades or so, the spitball was banned for 1920, the same year the country went dry under Prohibition.

After complying with these recommendations, the farm was allowed to reopen 2 days later on June 17; however, it was to operate under a prohibition notice served under the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, restricting visitors from having direct contact with animals.

Even the suggestion that a regulation was invalid would fall under the prohibition, the corporation's lawyer said.

Unless they fall under the prohibition of some legal rule, however, they are a matter for adjustment between owner and licensee, or by appropriate legislation.

The mayor received for his fees and costs in the present case $12, and from such costs under the Prohibition Act for seven months he made about $100 a month, in addition to his salary.

President Roosevelt at 6 55 P.M., signed an official proclamation in keeping with terms of the National Industrial Recovery Act, under which prohibition ended and four taxes levied to raise $277,000,000 annually for amortization of the $3,300,000,000 public works fund were repealed.