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"Sometimes a ban makes things worse. Protesting is a right -- it's like with children, when you forbid something, it becomes even more tempting," one employee remarked to AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

But none of the updates have attracted as much attention or scrutiny as its move to forbid users abusing its chatbots.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Tina Vaughn and Chip Smith, the husband-and-wife owners of Eulalie, an upscale cloth-napkin bistro in Tribeca, also forbid phone use at their restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

If he was not horrible to look at, then he was cruel to forbid her ever to behold him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

It also broadly forbids these companies from misleading or deceiving customers and prohibits confidentiality agreements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It is likely to have a limited impact in the month ahead because the law forbids states from purging their voter rolls in the 90 days before an election.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The three media organisations have argued that the ban breaches their rights under the First Amendment, which forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"There is a regulatory vacuum because Article 4 of the 1967 treaty only forbids weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in orbit," said space law expert Laetitia Cesari.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Fourth Amendment, the court reasoned, forbids the police from seizing people and searching them without some individualized suspicion that they have committed or are committing a crime.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The Meyer decision, for example, overturned a Nebraska law which forbad teaching non-English languages in public and private schools.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022

In another passage John is described as saying: "Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us, and we forbad him."

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

For my client forbad me to pursue my inquiries.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Practical jokes he never allowed either in himself or others; nor did his humour ever degenerate into mimicry, or amusement at the expense of the absent; delicacy of feeling forbad that.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

Ellis irresistibly wept, but, by a motion of her hand, forbad his approach.

From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Mackenzie forbade make-up and hairstyles, so told women to shave off their hair or keep it unkempt.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Yet he is so bad at ABS challenges that manager Dave Roberts forbade Pages from challenging pitches after his unsuccessful challenge in the NL Division Series opener Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The reason for the separation between the businesses, Corley added, had to do with a defunct local law that forbade the two establishments existing under one umbrella.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

That’s because the rule never forbade criticism of the SEC, but only a defendant’s attempt to deny the allegations or facts in a settlement that it “neither admitted nor denied.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Passed to keep the United States from getting entangled in another world conflict, the acts forbade Americans to help other countries that were at war.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Mr. Jones suggests that James sublimated doubts and forbidden desires into his stories and the routines of Cambridge and Eton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

One employee of a nearby store, forbidden from speaking to the press by her employer, guessed she’d seen 30 people taken from the area around this shopping mall alone.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

As Li’s novel makes clear, to be young and ambitious in 18th century Europe meant having the fortitude to dream forbidden dreams, against all odds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Gender segregation is standard practice for many Orthodox Jews but is forbidden in public places by the government of socially liberal Tel Aviv.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

So, forbidden to cut her own hair, she had given herself a fringe with a pair of nail scissors.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Diehards might find fault with something or other, but, to quote the author, you’d have to possess a “most forbidding, disagreeable countenance” not to be charmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Well, it's not exactly Mariah Carey demanding baskets of puppies and forbidding eye contact, but Imbruglia was shaken up.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

In May the Justice Ministry invoked its new anti-extraterritorial-jurisdiction rules for the first time, forbidding Chinese entities from cooperating with the European Commission’s investigation, under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, into Chinese security-equipment maker Nuctech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

If your niece’s mother lives there rent-free, the trustee should be comfortable that doing so benefits your niece and there should be no rules forbidding it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Indeed, that very same year Congress passed a law forbidding Americans from being involved in importing slaves.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson