debarring

Example Sentences

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In New York City absence is the sole condition for debarring any pupil, since he must have pursued a subject the prescribed time.

From The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Obrien, Francis P.

When the Athenian law debarring all but freemen from the exercise of art was enacted, Creon was at work trying to realize in marble the vision his soul had created.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett

"Why, what under the sun do you want, Happy?" she asked, going into her own room and debarring all the others whose curiosity was at the snapping point.

From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)

For we like to keep our coin up to our own standard, debarring no man from making better for himself.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

If I did, no doubt, by the same parental authority, my epistle would be intercepted—still further compromising her—still further debarring the chance of a reconciliation with her father!

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne