How to Use proscription in a Sentence
proscription
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The news of Mann’s proscription should not have come as a surprise.
—Duncan White, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
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When their relationship began, in the fall of 2016, old proscriptions were triggered in force, but Harry would have none of it.
—Michael Joseph Gross, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2018
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In 2016, the legislature, as part of a comprehensive bill, passed a seven-day cap on initial proscription for acute pain.
—Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 7 July 2017
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Since glass and metal can be used as weapons, the proscription against them is presumably for security reasons.
—Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 20 June 2019
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The new galley, like the current one, will prepare takeout meals for the 41 captives consistent with Islam’s halal proscriptions for delivery to the cellblocks.
—Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
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As my colleague Olga Khazan wrote in 2013, the proscription was both cultural and religious.
—Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
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That’s to maximize choices, Norris said, rather than any proscription away from building smaller.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
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Bigwigs attending Wednesday’s opening in Davos were greeted by a large poster illustrating the proscription and warning of a $4 fine for fashionistas tempted to break the ban.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2004
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Chairman Conne Bisbee concurred, as did others on the board after a proscription against parole violations, even the simplest.
—Jennifer Brett, ajc, 20 July 2017
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If approved by the court, the proscription could serve as a legal weapon and basis for the government in securing court clearances to put rebel leaders and fighters under surveillance and freeze their bank accounts and assets, Ong said.
—Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
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Jonathan approves the proscription of Boko Haram and splinter group Ansaru as terrorist organizations.
—CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
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Rushdie, who had spent decades under proscription by Iran, was on a ventilator Friday evening after undergoing hours of surgery, according to an email from his agent, Andrew Wylie.
—Hurubie Meko, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
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The U.S. Constitution is notable for its focus on proscriptions rather than prescriptions.
—Fortune, 8 May 2017
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There is indeed a great deal of evidence that most acquired characteristics are not inherited, but as the new findings have shown, this proscription is not absolute.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2017
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The legal assertion that life begins at conception has implications for IVF, and pro-life groups in this country and abroad have argued for a proscription not only of embryo research but also of the freezing and disposal of embryos.
—Laura Beers, CNN, 27 May 2022
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In 2013, Putin passed the infamous gay-propaganda law, which criminalized the spreading of information about gay rights to minors (among other anti-gay proscriptions).
—Mike Mariani, The Hive, 9 Apr. 2017
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Those cases, however, turned on the Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2018
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To be sure, South Korea has no visible nuclear program or announced plans for it, but an international proscription is another matter.
—Henry A. Kissinger, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
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Never mind that the dossier to back this most recent proscription, reportedly based on intelligence gathered by Israel’s domestic security agency Shin Bet, has been debunked.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021
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There are still some legal gray areas through which such techniques could reemerge — for example, how to interpret domestic and international legal proscriptions, for example — but that’s not the only concern about Haspel’s nomination.
—Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
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Accordingly, if Prop 1 passed, individual business owners or private citizens could take it upon themselves to decide how to enforce Prop 1's proscriptions.
—Bill Evans, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
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States with nuclear weapons often leave ambiguity in their doctrines to prevent adversaries from exploiting gaps in their proscriptions and to preserve flexibility.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
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Such a proscription wouldn’t significantly lower domestic gasoline prices because many U.S. refiners are built to process heavier crudes different from the lighter grades extracted domestically.
—WSJ, 11 Apr. 2022
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The movie asks us to weigh statuatory biblical proscriptions against homosexuals against more overarching concepts of mercy and forgiveness.
—Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2017
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At the same time, different Amish communities have different sorts of religious proscriptions—some reject rubber wheels, for example, while others embrace them—so Pioneer offers roughly 90 different options.
—Adam Davidson, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
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Although there remains a conflict of laws, given the federal government's continued proscriptions against pot, the marijuana economy is nevertheless flourishing.
—Edvard Pettersson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
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Whatever its claims to intimacy or revelation, the book is really an extended tribute to the comforts of Amis’s favorite forms of armored thinking—dichotomy, taxonomy, generalization, definition, prescription, and proscription.
—Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
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