Sentence examples for virtually forbid from inspiring English sources

Under the new districting, Westmount and 13 other predominantly English cities would become minority districts in larger French-speaking boroughs, where provincial laws virtually forbid offering services in languages other than French.

The deployment of regular soldiers for domestic operations is virtually forbidden by law.

But Mexico's Constitution virtually forbids foreign investment in electricity production.

Jewish colonization was attempted but was frustrated by the hostility of the Arab population and by the Ottoman land laws, which virtually forbade settlement by nonnatives.

It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood".

Marginalized by a lack of infrastructure, a Khmer Rouge presence that endured into the late 1990s, and some of Southeast Asia's wildest, least-explored terrain, the region remained virtually forbidden to outsiders.

He said she was required to attend worship services "three, four, five nights a week and all day Sunday" and was virtually forbidden to socialize with people who were not congregants of her family's church.

One of the main government agencies that sponsors research on public health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been virtually forbidden by law from doing any research on gun violence and public policy for two decades.

This memoir of summers spent with the author's grandparents in the desert of northern Nevada deals with the graces of courage and humor, battered by repeated failure in a terrain that virtually forbids success.

Half elegy, half celebration, this memoir of summers spent with the author's grandparents in the cold, high desert of northern Nevada deals with the graces of courage and humor, battered by repeated failure in a terrain that virtually forbids success.

Dating in public is virtually forbidden.