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 prohibition [,prәuhi'biʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 禁令, 禁止



    prohibition
    [ noun ]
    1. a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

      2. <noun.communication>
      in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US
    2. a decree that prohibits something

      3. <noun.communication>
    3. the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

      4. <noun.time>
    4. refusal to approve or assent to

      5. <noun.communication>
    5. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

      6. <noun.act>
      they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter
      a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages
      he ignored his parents' forbiddance


    Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. prohibitio: cf. F.
    prohibition.]
    1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction
    forbidding some action; interdict.

    The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists
    mostly of prohibitions. --Tillotson.

    2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of
    alcoholic liquors as beverages.

    {Writ of prohibition} (Law), a writ issued by a superior
    tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the
    latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending
    before it. --Blackstone.

    Note: By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.

    1. These are code words of judicial activism, not part of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment."
    2. This prohibition was partly blamed for the failed coup attempt against Manuel Noriega before he was finally apprehended.
    3. Passage of the bill was delayed until the Senate's Democratic majority could corral enough votes to waive the prohibition against appropriating funds that exceed the spending limit in the congressional budget resolution.
    4. This is not as precisely worded as the prohibition against expropriation in either the Magna Carta or the U.S. Constitution.
    5. The document noted that a prohibition against assassination will mean different things in wartime and peacetime.
    6. The prohibition against assignment did not prevent assignment of the accrued claim for damages.
    7. Schmoke told a House committee that the United States has tried vigorously for 75 years to rid itself of the what he described as the reality that drug prohibition increases crime without doing away with addiction.
    8. The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee's vote marked the first congressional initiative aimed at repealing the prohibition since the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the restriction.
    9. But the prohibition was reversed a day later after Motorola argued that the chip sales ban could devastate outside computer makers that depend on its microprocessors to run their machines.
    10. About 250 students at China's foremost university, meanwhile, defied a school prohibition and met to discuss political change.
    11. He said in the debate that the prohibition applied to "salaries and all support costs."
    12. Alcoholic drinks became illegal in Iceland in 1915 following a referendum, and although prohibition was repealed in 1933, beer containing more than 2.25 percent alcohol remained outlawed.
    13. The ruling includes a prohibition against a Puget Power dividend increase until the year after the transfer is completed.
    14. The union contends that random testing, without individual suspicion of illegal drug use, violates, among other things, the constitutional prohibition against illegal searches.
    15. It was watered down to a two-year prohibition by the Senate, where senators from tobacco-growing states hold influential positions.
    16. The funding prohibition _ which constitutional lawyers say appears to be the first restriction on federal art assistance based on content _ also was a compromise.
    17. Based on that volume, the dual trading prohibition would probably apply to the contracts that are nearing expiration in the pits that trade futures contracts for financial and currency instruments such as the yen and the Swiss franc.
    18. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills, a former board director at Chevron Corp., says President Bush "respects the constitutional prohibition."
    19. In 1976, President Ford was faced with harsh congressional criticism of the CIA. In order to avoid even more restrictive legislation, he signed a prohibition against assassinations, which President Reagan reissued in 1981.
    20. It repealed the prohibition on indirect military or paramilitary aid, and expressly authorized the State Department to solicit third country humanitarian aid.
    21. Another is a current prohibition that allows regional phone companies to act as a carrier of data services but not as an originator.
    22. North attorney Brendan Sullivan had been cross-examining Owen on Monday and had objected to the prohibition of the use of a high Costa Rican official's name in one of the Owen memos.
    23. Scores of developing nations have suffered as a result of the prohibition on trade with Iraq.
    24. Nynex's request for a waiver of the long-distance prohibition in May 1987 marked the first time one of the regional Bells had sought permission to enter the long-distance business.
    25. House sponsor Richard Durbin, D-Ill., was blocked from offering an amendment that would have applied the prohibition to all domestic flights.
    26. The case created widespread public outrage in the United States. The U.S. government subsequently imposed sanctions on the company, including a three-year prohibition on exports to the United States.
    27. Japanese public universities have only recently changed their historical prohibition on taking corporate funds, and the level is still quite low.
    28. By a 7-2 vote, the justices refused to extend the prohibition against the excessive fines to civil as well as criminal cases.
    29. The daily Al-Qabas said the formal prohibition came after a citizen approached the Ministry of Endowment and Islamic Affairs for an opinion on the practice.
    30. Highbarger says the problem with drug prohibition is that "enforcement is simply not working." "We're pouring money down a rathole," he said in an interview. "Drugs get cheaper every year.
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