Word: forbiddenness
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Though the disease is harmless to humans, it spreads easily, carried on clothing and equipment, even on windblown rain. To prevent the canker from spreading beyond its borders, Florida has also forbidden growers to ship fruit to other citrusproducing states...
...Business School official has forbidden The Crimson to deliver newspapers in the mail slots where B-school students are used to picking them up, saying that the slots are too small to accomodate both the papers and official notices...
...what zeal did Bosch and Bruegel similarly portray malefactors being torn at by giant birds or skeletons. Yet the avenger himself was traditionally punished too. Orestes goes mad; Hamlet dies of poison; Captain Ahab ends in a tangle of rope dragged by Moby Dick. Revenge is both necessary and forbidden...
...Supreme Court held that this kind of case-specific solicitation, though forbidden by the Ohio bar's long-standing ethical tenets, is "commercial speech" protected by the First Amendment. Advertisements, wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, are not comparable to face-to-face solicitation of clients, which can be prohibited because it is "rife with possibilities for overreaching . . . and outright fraud." The court rejected the contention that ads like Zauderer's will "stir up litigation" unnecessarily. "That our citizens have access to their civil courts is not an evil to be regretted," said White. "The state is not entitled...
...initiated a policy designed to rein in his church's most visible theological dissidents. Among the prime targets: Hans Kung of West Germany and Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands, who had challenged traditional dogmas about both the nature of Christ and the authority of bishops and priests. Kung was forbidden to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian, and Schillebeeckx's writings are still being examined. Last week the Vatican announced a disciplinary step against another scholar, Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 46, Brazil's leading advocate of liberation theology. It ordered him not to publish, lecture or edit religious journals...