proscribe

Example Sentences

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The judge said the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action “certainly does not proscribe any particular classroom speech, or relate at all to curricular choices.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

The government moved to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws after the group claimed responsibility for the June incident.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025

The government said an order will be introduced in Parliament to proscribe the group under the Terrorism Act.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Earlier this year, Whitehall sources indicated that the government was prepared to proscribe the IRGC, the powerful military force set up after the 1979 revolution in Iran to defend to defend the country's Islamic system.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2023

My blood boils, when I think, that they have dared, in the face of nations, to proscribe without trial the thousands of Frenchmen, who are marching with us: is this known to the army?"—"

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron