proscription

Examples of proscribed

proscribed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
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.
British colonial officials gathered data on external trade and not internal manufactures, which were often proscribed.
For practical reasons, its prohibitions are framed in general terms, ruling out both valuable and valueless instances of a proscribed activity.
Links with clergymen employed by the convent or friars from a nearby male community, although proscribed, provided female religious with an obvious source of company.
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.
These different levels of description should be prescribed for their complementarity and their individual advantages, not proscribed for their differences and respective disadvantages.
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.
These licence decisions, and decisions to modify the lists of controlled items or proscribed countries, required unanimous consent.
However, maize, with its proscribed growing conditions, is more difficult to maintain.
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