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

The disease notion, however, obscures those facts and narrows our view to counterproductive criminal responses, like harsh prohibitionist crackdowns.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2022

But she concedes that if young people feel they are living under an prohibitionist regime then "we need to listen to them".

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2017

At that time he was a Methodist, a prohibitionist and was not a pensioner.

From Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Roster and Record by Brown, Andrew