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 home secretary has the power under UK law to proscribe an organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000 if they believe it is "concerned with terrorism".

From BBC • Jun. 21, 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

"The Americans have been asking us not to proscribe because they don't want us to shut our embassy in Tehran which is essentially operating now as their de facto embassy," Ms Kearns says.

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