Word: prohibitional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
University President Lawrence H. Summers said in September that the cost of removing the bells from Lowell and shipping them to Russia might prohibit a transfer...
...only 20 states forbid big-cat ownership entirely (though many cities, including New York, do have local bans). A bill before the U.S. Senate would ban interstate and foreign commerce in big cats, except for circuses, zoos and other facilities like wildlife sanctuaries. But even that would not prohibit private ownership...
...biggest test of R.U.C.'s influence will come in the bitter intraparty fight brewing over gay marriage. Some Republicans are pushing a constitutional amendment that not only would prohibit gay marriage (federal law already does that) but also could invalidate state domestic partnerships that give gay couples the same rights--inheritance and power over medical decisions, for instance--as straight married couples. Last month the Washington Post published an op-ed piece by Simpson opposing the amendment. Francis is careful to note that Bush hasn't come out in favor of it, though the President has said, vaguely, "I believe...
Besides this one objection, the punching event went over rather smoothly. Unfortunately, the D.U.’s policy proved more difficult to crash. The club president explained at the time that alumni ties would prohibit such a drastic change in tradition. Two women had been punched into the club during the early 1970s but were refused membership when several influential alumni withdrew their financial support as a result of the incident...
...while I agree that the earlier state sanctions prohibiting interacial marriage were a mark of shame on our country, how exactly is gay marriage the same? Bans on interacial marriage prohibited a man and a women who happened to be of different races from marrying, a discrimination against a union that would have been totally unremarkable if not for some differences in pigment. Bans on gay marriage prohibit something altogether quite different. You may believe that gay marriage is a good idea, as is your right, but it does a service to no one, the gay rights movement least...