Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after television cameras were allowed on the floor, the Senate Rules Committee issued regulations regarding visual aids. Display material can consist of charts, maps or photos, but "artistic renderings" are strictly forbidden -- thus no unflattering caricatures of Phil Gramm. Originally, displays could be no larger than 24 in. by 30 in. This was changed when Senator Ted Stevens asserted that the rules did not accommodate maps of his large home state, Alaska; the current maximum is 36 in. by 48 in. There are no rules regarding size on the House side, where the Speaker has the authority to decide whether...
Coleridge moved "caves of ice" to Xanadu from the Kashmir region of northern India, where they had been described in 1795 by the Rev. Thomas Maurice in The History of Hindostan. Alexander and a friend, forbidden to travel there because of political turmoil, attached themselves to a mob of religious pilgrims and pressed on regardless. The journey was not entirely spiritual; an overcrowded campsite was fouled with human dung. This does not prevent Alexander from creating a beautiful scene. "I saw, on drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long...
...honest, not being valedictorian hasn't mattered in my life. Which is why, perhaps, I read the story of Paul Siemens '98 with such disbelief. Paul, in case you don't know, is suing his school district for unfairness. Not because he was forbidden from taking an important class, not because he was denied help because of his race, but because he thinks their system of determining valedictorians is unfair...
Under the proposed resolution, elected city officials convicted of a felony would be forbidden to finish their terms in office...
...script but when Tian diverged from it, refused to let him edit his film; it languished for a year and was completed abroad by others working from the director's screenplay and notes. The film was banned in China, and last month Tian and six other prominent directors were forbidden to make films in their homeland...