Word: prohibitional
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...decree, suspending Article 14 of Argentina's Constitution (patterned after the U.S. Bill of Rights), gave Acting President Castillo unchallenged power to prohibit meetings, suppress newspapers, order arrests-but not to inflict punishment...
Although nothing has happened to cause undue alarm, the shortage of water in Cambridge is serious enough for the Cambridge water board to prohibit the washing of cars in filling stations and garages...
...women, ∙ ∙ John Steinbeck's Mexican documentary film, The Forgotten Village, was banned as "indecent" by New York's State Board of Censors. It contains childbirth sequences. ∙ ∙ Mae Murray, suing Billy Ros& for $150,000 for invasion of privacy, lost a plea to prohibit Georges Fontana and Mitzi Haynes from doing the Merry Widow Waltz at Rose's Manhattan nightclub. Her version of it with John Gilbert re-popularized the dance 16 years...
Whenever in the judgment of the President such action is necessary or proper . . . he may . . . regulate or prohibit, with respect to any commodity . . . selling, marketing, or inventory practices . . . which in his judgment are equivalent to or are likely to result in price increases inconsistent with the purposes of this...
...publishers have cooperated in efforts to eliminate false advertising, but they view with alarm the Government's "using the term 'false advertising' as a mask with which to cloak a very evident desire to restrict or prohibit all advertising or to subject it to Government control...