debarring

Example Sentences

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“No,” he said; “that would be debarring myself from escaping.”

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

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.

"It simply excruciates me from you," he had said, thus debarring her from that only appellation which would certainly be the easiest, and which seemed to her the only one becoming.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

Depend upon my sincerity for this," Defoe answers, "that I am far from debarring you.

From Daniel Defoe by Minto, William

This was ingeniously framed with an appearance of justice, as if debarring from office only those who to rebellion had added perjury.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring