Word: forbids
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...teams from Kansas or Quebec or--God forbid--California in this Series. Just baseball's two favorites in the head-to-head match-up everybody had been waiting for since August...
Gallagher, like many liberals, does not support either, because he believes the bill's plan to repeal the surtax and forbid its reimposition will starve Massachusetts social services and education of funding...
Essentially, the decision leaves it up to each state whether to tolerate or forbid homosexual sodomy. Though all 50 states had antisodomy laws as late as 1961, those statutes have since been repealed or struck down by courts in 26 states; the Supreme Court's ruling will have little immediate effect there. Even the laws still on the books in 24 states--19 states and the District of Columbia criminalize all sodomy; five have laws that apply...
Moreover, White seems to forget that sodomy laws forbid oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples as well as homosexual ones. In a dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun scolds White for an "almost obsessive focus on homosexual activity." Of course, this obsession is no small coincidence. There is little chance that a case of heterosexual sodomy would ever make its way to the courts since Americans do not disapprove of sodomy between heterosexuals. We can therefore rest assured that only homosexuals will have their bedrooms raided by local police...
...regulations forbid labeling that "represents, suggests or implies that the food ... is adequate or effective in the prevention, cure, mitigation or treatment of any disease or symptom...