Synonym: ban, forbiddance, inhibition, prohibition era, proscription. Similar words: prohibit, exhibition, inhibit, exhibit, inhibited, ambitious, edition, position. Meaning: [‚prəʊɪ'bɪʃn] 
n. 1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages 2. a decree that prohibits something 3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment 4. refusal to approve or assent to 5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof).
n. 1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages 2. a decree that prohibits something 3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment 4. refusal to approve or assent to 5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof). 
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31. Prohibition will apply to chief executives, chief officers, deputies and others who regularly advise or act on behalf of their councils.
32. That means 45 percent of delegates support some type of prohibition on abortion in the platform.
33. Prohibition of drugs, they say, works no better than prohibition of alcohol did in the United States.
34. Another method of subordination is a prohibition on repayment of the debt whilst other creditors remain unpaid.
35. If the lease contains an absolute prohibition on assignment, there is no obligation on the lessor to give consent.
36. As home-brewing returns, some groups are striving to bring back a milder version of Prohibition.
37. Free speech is subject to prohibition of those abuses of expression which a civilized society may forbid.
38. This remained a most important consideration,[www.Sentencedict.com] but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss.
39. Does this mean that only this small area is to be subject to the prohibition?
40. They stand to benefit little from the insider dealing prohibition.
41. The point at the very heart of anti-insider dealing legislation is the prohibition on the use of valuable information.
42. What this prohibition therefore fails to address or account for, is the obligation to promote the good of other animals.
43. This wish is merely repressed, not abolished, by the desire to please the parents by obeying their prohibition.
44. Robin Lakoff suggests that the prohibition on women using language forcefully extends to nonstandard pronunciation as well.
45. That prohibition still persists, and legislation to open the nation's woodlands up to its people hangs in the balance.
46. For some reason, the whole extraordinary saga of San Diego and Tijuana during Prohibition has been forgotten.
47. As a result, reliance has been placed mainly upon case law to map the contours of the current prohibition.
48. Failure by a trader to comply with a prohibition notice or notice to warn is a criminal offence.
49. An express prohibition on assignment does not in itself render the contract personal.
50. Strong social pressures often support or repudiate their use, and sometimes the pressures lead to control or prohibition by governments.
51. In each case the reports have concluded that marijuana prohibition is without a justifiable foundation.
52. Prohibition does not work in preventing alcoholism and never has done throughout history.
53. The notion that prohibition is any less prohibition when applied to things now thought evil I do not understand.
54. On the contrary, the prohibition makes sense precisely because the psyche was thought to continue after its separation from the body.
55. The prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality remains a cornerstone of unification.
56. The license had been in his continuous possession since Prohibition ended in 1933.
57. Soon afterwards, a prohibition on alienation was introduced: property under bequest was not to be alienated.
58. Whereas certiorari quashes past unlawful conduct, prohibition prevents future or continued unlawful conduct.
59. The prohibition was lifted in some counties last week after light rain fell over much of the state.
60. Prohibition does not work, and it does far more harm than the substance itis supposed to protect us against.
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