debar

Example Sentences

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

From Science Magazine • May 15, 2024

The agency also is seeking to debar the company’s principal officer, Dick Cattani.

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

The company said Thursday that it had “not been advised of the intention of any federal agency to suspend or debar the company in connection with the plea agreement.”

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012

She's a bad mother, indeed, that a daughter daurna trust wi' a virtuous secret; and I hope ye ne'er saw onything in me, Rachel, that need debar ye frae making yer feelings known to me.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various