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

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, the Home Secretary may proscribe an organisation if they believe it is concerned in terrorism.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

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

And that is why the Aztecs dreaded his return, and why they had not dared to proscribe his cultus, but, on the contrary, recognized it and carried it on.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert