proscribe
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A final deal should proscribe all tolls, mines and forced routes, restoring unrestricted free passage.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
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
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe the group last month, calling damage to two military aircraft "disgraceful" and claiming the group had a "long history of unacceptable criminal damage".
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2025
The expected move to proscribe the group has drawn criticism from a number of human rights groups and activists.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025
It is thus that our charitable divines caricature and misrepresent the opponents of their supremacy, and describe them as dangerous brigands, whom society, for its own interest, ought to proscribe and destroy.
From Letters To Eugenia Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
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