prohibitory
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"Any person violating these prohibitory orders shall be liable for prosecution," Delhi Police said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
In the following years, Cherian was arrested several times for violating prohibitory orders and participating in protests.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022
“From this alone, it would seem to follow that Texas’s laws fall on the regulatory rather than prohibitory side of the line — and thus may not be applied on tribal lands,” he added.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
We are aware that there is a prohibitory law in existence respecting these animals, but it is seen that they roam abroad at pleasure, no one considering it their business to interfere with them.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2010
The cost of the family in the house would be about 18s. weekly; and yet the expenditure in the rural Union, where the "prohibitory order" is in force, has been reduced.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
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