prohibitionist

Example Sentences

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The Senators owner, a prohibitionist through and through, made things harder on himself by subsisting without a source of revenue that other teams availed themselves of.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

Most of the shops are to be operated by people of color who had been incarcerated by prohibitionist laws.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

They included the prohibitionist Edwin Scrymgeour, who ultimately claimed victory along with Labour's E. D. Morel.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2022

A sprawling history of a concept, spanning decades of prohibitionist thinking and the latest in recovery research, could easily fall apart were it not informed by Fisher's experience.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2022

His mother, a saintly and noble prohibitionist worker, whom I afterwards met in America, had heard of me, and wrote asking me to keep a watchful eye on her boy.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen