proscription

proscribe | American Dictionary

proscribe
verb[ T ]
us/proʊˈskrɑɪb/
to forbid an action or practice officially:
The sale of materials that could be used in making nuclear weapons is proscribed by US law.

Examples of proscribe

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This proscribes competition for "ownership" of the patient and demands an egalitarian sharing of expertise, including the expertise of ethical thinking.
Under authoritarianism, independent political activity by labour unions was strictly proscribed in the name of national security.
From this standpoint, whatever might interfere with meaning is necessarily proscribed, beginning with the reintroduction of vocal materiality and the jouissance connected to it.
When it proscribes particular forms of discourse, deliberative democratic theory actually adds to these heavy demands on movements.
Industry has asked consumers by way of privacy advocates to specify those data handling practices that they wish to proscribe.
There are not, in quantum space, any dimensionless points to act as possible departure points for zero-width trajectories: they are proscribed by the theory.
This paper looks at how libraries function in terms of the access to literature they enable and proscribe.
British colonial officials gathered data on external trade and not internal manufactures, which were often proscribed.
Such conditions somewhat resemble generative derivation rules; note, however, that this constraint does not proscribe an order between the constituents.
This is asymmetric conflict with the additional condition of is proscribed.
This would mean that a wide variety of affronts to sensibility could be proscribed if the taboos against the conduct were broadly held.
In other words people's private actions came under public scrutiny, were often legally proscribed, and categorized on the basis of political loyalties.
Some, such as incendiarism, were already felonies, whilst other offences were newly proscribed.
As such, limited and carefully proscribed forms of screening may be permissible so long as the values of welfare, equality and liberty are observed.
And no, men were no longer buried in their byres, largely because it was proscribed by the authorities.
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