How to Use proscribe in a Sentence

proscribe

verb

• Then there’s France, where the government has proscribed a...
  — Sohrab Ahmari, WSJ, 24 May 2017
• Much of that content was proscribed from streaming on Disney+ in the region.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Colonial laws proscribed the death penalty for these acts.
  — Michael Bronski, Time, 25 June 2019
• That was the idea: the government would create proscribed markets.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
• Of course there are the ritual greetings and glances and such, but these should be minimal and strictly proscribed.
  — Christian Wiman, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The time to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organization is now.
  — Time, 7 June 2023
• Such bullets, which can cause wider wound channels, are proscribed in most military use.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• The charge of crimes against peace had been justified in Nuremberg by various prewar agreements to proscribe war, such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• For Risso, the curious twists of the mind are our bulwark against anything proscribed or preordained; our brains and our passions will, in his view, set us free.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2019
• Which is a concern with, How are these data systems proscribing my freedoms?
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Five years ago, Britons celebrated with much fanfare the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, a document that began the long process of proscribing the powers of the monarch.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• The freedmen may have gained the right to vote (one that would be proscribed in the years to come in the South by post-Reconstruction laws establishing poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures).
  — The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
• It was held under the Chatham House rule, which proscribed attendees from disclosing who said what, but its agenda and attendees list are available online.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2017
• In fact, the doughnut model doesn’t proscribe all economic growth or development.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 22 Jan. 2021
• She and other legislators should return to the work of writing laws to proscribe specific conduct rather than to create new bureaucracies to do their dirty work.
  — WSJ, 20 Aug. 2018
• The new Regulation Best Interest proscribes some of the most offensive sales tactics of an industry replete with them.
  — Barry Ritholtz, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• The rule led to a stoppage of all fracking activity months before the government officially proscribed it.
  — David Wethe | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• The separation was under terms proscribed by Ruby and Jodi Hildebrandt.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• The law prohibits the sale of junk food like ice cream, chocolate and potato chips in Chilean schools and proscribes such products from being advertised during television programs or on websites aimed at young audiences.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Designed as a kind of flow sheet, these pages would proscribe the steps that Lacassagne, his lab chief and students would follow in investigating each possible cause of death, with a series of observations to check off along the way.
  — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2011
• Unlike most west African countries, Senegal has never had a military coup, but in 2012 the previous president, Abdoulaye Wade, did run for a third term, which the constitution proscribes.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• In the West, Christian dogma had defined all creatures as there for the convenience and utility of humanity, and the Catholic Church’s frequent fast days, where the consumption of meat was proscribed, ensured a constant demand for fish.
  — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
• Alcohol is now proscribed for about 16 million people, as several others among the nation’s 77 provinces have already imposed curbs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• The bottom line is that for far too long, college athletes have been one of the only subsets of American society who have been proscribed from accepting compensation that someone else is more than willing to give them.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• This is a man specifically proscribed as a terrorist for his associations with al Qaeda.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
• Shouting and chanting slogans are also proscribed after sunset.
  — Benjamin Harvey, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
• That will go for restoration, reforestation, fuel reduction, proscribed fire, biomass utilization, and new research.
  — David Helvarg, National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2019
• Democrats championed the rights of business owners and employers all week, while Republicans sought ways to proscribe how employers can run their businesses during a pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• Yet Florida’s law abandons this ideal by seeking to proscribe what professors can say on particular topics.
  — Michael R. Bloomberg, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022

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