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How to use the word prohibit in a Sentence?

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Left unchallenged, it would prohibit transgender children from receiving health care that their medical providers and their parents have determined to be medically necessary. In doing so, the law seeks to substitute the judgment of trained medical professionals and parents with that of elected officials and codifies discrimination against children who already face far too many obstacles.

Tennessee Henry Leventis

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I am carrying the legislation to protect children from being exposed to sexually explicit drag shows that are inappropriate for minor audiences. It is similar to laws that prohibit children from going to a strip club.

Jack Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s rules that prohibit using the phone on the floor.

Matt Rosendale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was a dedicated legislator who was always guided by his devotion to bipartisanship and improving people’s lives, his work to advance the Americans with Disabilities Act and prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities changed millions of lives for the better and made our nation stronger.

Amy Klobuchar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As I often said during my campaign for president, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana, sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Air Force Academy does not prohibit the use of' mom and dad' or other gender-specific terms, the recent briefing on diversity and inclusion is being taken out of context and misrepresented ; the slide in question was not intended to stand alone.

Superintendent Lt. Gen. Rich Clark

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As more states move to restrict and prohibit access to reproductive care, New Mexico will continue to not only protect access to abortion, but to expand and strengthen reproductive health care throughout the state.

Lujan Grisham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No student athlete should have to go into any venue and be subjected to that kind of an atmosphere, you want a raucous crowd if you're the home team, that's fantastic, but when it crosses that line, it becomes the responsibility of those who are in authority to make sure that atmosphere stays safe and free of any of those kinds of elements that would prohibit people from playing at their highest level.

Marvin Richardson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that what is most important right now is that we ensure that the restrictions that the states are trying to put up that would prohibit a woman from exercising what we still maintain is her right, that we do everything we can to empower women to not only seek but to receive the care where it is available, is federal land one of those options?

Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

( T) Chief Justice John Roberts Court's decisions in Trinity Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza prohibit States from denying aid to religious schools solely because of a school's religious status — that is, its affiliation with or control by a religious organization, but Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza have never said that the Free Exercise Clause prohibits States from withholding funds because of the religious use to which the money will be put.

Stephen Breyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tomorrow the India stock market is most likely to open further Rs.5 down of each Rs.100 worth shares and decling trend is likely to continue till June end month. Brokerage houses will continue to prohibit the entry of sell price and play spoilsport as companies have started looting invested money of public in share market

Lakshheish M Patel

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1 year ago

I know Discord can be problematic, but it's important for me as a parent to not simply prohibit these things because of the dangers but teach my kids about how to navigate them and balance limiting it, to my knowledge, I've never had an issue with any of my boys.

Stephane Cotichini

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The value of impartial and objective journalism cannot be underestimated in this particular war, [Putin] is tightening the screws, he’s passing these laws that prohibit calling what is happening in Ukraine a war.

Volodymyr Solohub

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Collectively they hold more than $ 80 billion in assets, these measures freeze their assets in the United States, prohibit American individuals or businesses from doing any transactions with them, shut them out of the global financial system and foreclose access to the U.S. dollar.

Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've already heard a direct threat from the Beijing organizing committee threatening' certain punishments' for those who engage in political speech that violates the spirit of the Olympic Committee, as the Chinese official put it, and they have not walked back those comments. Those threats stand, but the IOC rules do not prohibit athletes from speaking freely to the press.

Bennett Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Travel in the evacuation area around 4400 North Cherry Street will become increasingly difficult as police begin to shut down roads and prohibit vehicle traffic. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to evacuate as soon as possible. Use personal vehicles and carpool when possible. Parking anywhere on campus is allowed.

Wake Forest

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Privacy laws prohibit the district from any further communication on the investigation as it relates to personnel matters. The claim submitted by Ms. Konen will be addressed in the appropriate manner within the judicial system. We are currently reviewing and updating our policies and procedures regarding student clubs and will bring those draft policies to the Board of Education as soon as feasible.

Superintendent Eric Tarallo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We prohibit human exploitation in no uncertain terms, we've been combating human trafficking on our platform since 2015 and our goal remains to prevent anyone who seeks to exploit others from having a home on our platform.

Andy Stone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Idaho Code Section 18-310(2) has a list of qualifying felony convictions which prohibit firearm possession. Mr. Bergquist did not have a felony conviction for a listed offense, he was prosecuted for a qualifying offense in another state, but that case did not result in a qualifying felony conviction. On July 28, 2011, a misdemeanor judgment of conviction was entered in that case. He was prosecuted for a retail theft offense in Illinois which does not qualify under 18-310 as a qualifying felony prior conviction. Our office could not take any action.

The Prosecutor Office

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Plaintiffs agreed to settle claims alleging that the FBI was negligent when it failed to prohibit the sale of a gun by a licensed firearms dealer to the shooter, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, who wanted to start a ‘race war’ and specifically targeted the 200-year-old historically African-American congregation.

The Justice Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the wake of a number of recent tragedies, law enforcement around the nation is reexamining the way it engages with individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system, i am directing the Department's law enforcement components to revise their policies to explicitly prohibit the use of chokeholds and the carotid restraint technique unless deadly force is authorized, and to limit the circumstances in which agents may seek to enter a dwelling pursuant to a warrant without complying with the' knock and announce' rule.

Lisa Monaco

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Claims that bans on critical race theory prohibit ‘teaching about racism in schools’ are factually inaccurate - and that's not, in fact, what parents or legislators oppose at all, people object to the rampant discrimination taking place in America's schools that treat children differently on the basis of immutable characteristics such as race and gender – which is something that all Americans should oppose, because to do so is both immoral and unconstitutional.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But the Governor has also attempted to prohibit local elected officials from making a different decision, in response to local conditions, to protect their own communities.

Clay Jenkins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the case that they were to drink inside their own rooms — this is equivalent to cases where we are drinking in our own home. can we prohibit that? That’s not conceivable.

Toshiro Muto

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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