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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of forbids in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of forbids in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of forbids in a Sentence

  1. Anatole France:

    The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

  2. Tynan Power:

    There are Muslims who believe that the Koran forbids homosexuality, just as there are Christians who believe the Bible does, there are also Muslims who believe that honoring their God-given capacity to love is a form of worship. Ultimately, no one perspective can define a religion for all other people of that faith.

  3. George Bernard Shaw:

    Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

  4. Samuel Alito:

    Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18.

  5. The US:

    There's no way also that the The US or any other foreign government can' singlehandedly' engage in a battle like Marawi because the Philippine Constitution forbids it, foreign troops and foreign military may help by providing intel, logistics, weapons but they can't, technically, actively participate in combat.

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