Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regulation will forbid students from playing computer games from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Mondays through Thursdays, and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Fridays. User assistants will be able to require game-players to stop when students with academic work are waiting...
...told his dad he was scared of the dark. "Oh, Jesus Christ," said the parent in disgust. Then he led the terrified boy down to the cellar, handcuffed his arms over a rafter, turned off the light and shut the door. Mark dangled in silence for hours. "God forbid if I cried," he recalls. "I was just like a hanging Everlast bag, you know? Punch me, punch me." When Mark was nine, his father held the boy's hand over a red-hot burner as punishment for moving a book of matches on a bureau. And when...
Maybe I was spoiled in high school. I attended a small private girls' school where class sizes rarely entered the double digits. If class size ever, heaven forbid, enter the teens as it did in AP English and biology, an angry editorial would appear in our school paper...
Laws governing the actions of nonprofit organizations forbid the University from endorsing individual candidates...
...unions agreed to forbid workers fromstriking over labor disputes or to strike out ofsympathy for other workers...