debar

Example Sentences

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It is relatively rare for HHS to debar an NIH grantee.

From Science Magazine • May 15, 2024

On Dec. 30, Labor announced a move to debar or prohibit any new federal contracts with Restaurant Associates.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2017

You would think that views like that might just debar you from holding that office, but no.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2015

“Sexual orientation does not debar anyone from God’s love,” it said in a statement in March.

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

Nor did the demands of courtesy and of her family debar her from habitual and systematic charities, dispensed in her neighborhood, or from those most important of all daily duties, the calls of the "closet."

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)