Word: prohibitive
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...fear of the loss of liberty is what bothers me. He laments the passing of freedom of expression, yet in his very lamentation he betrays the fallacy of his fears. Who has prevented him from writing those . . . lines [to the American Society of Newspaper Editors] ? Who will prohibit his denouncing the Republicans, Wall Street and organized religion? Here is an educator who would have us establish a special, privileged class of citizenry which would inherit complete immunity solely by reason of a profession in education. Is this democracy ? Or is it the very reactionary society which these "liberal" minds attack...
Schulman denied that the firing has anything to do with the recent "piety" controversy. He noted, however, that the same people who voted to prohibit religious ceremonies in Association meetings are now supporting Wiegand. "They are using him as a 'scape-goat' to hinder my administration," he said. He said his opponents had a "sour grapes" attitude toward his election. Schulman, a "dark horse" candidate, won the presidency of the association by one vote...
...study of the facts soon showed that Joe McCarthy's blockade was as phony as it was irregular. A whole series of recent moves by the governments of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Greece and other countries practically prohibit their ships from trading with Communist China. Just last week, after long negotiations with the U.S., the Greek government decreed that Greek-flag ships will not sail to Communist Chinese ports...
...member nations solemnly agreed to prohibit the export of strategic materials to Chinese mainland ports. The catch is in the meaning of "strategic." The U.S. regards all materials shipped to China as useful to the enemy, and therefore strategic; others, still clinging to the moneymaking proposition that China is "the land of 400 million customers," are much less thoroughgoing. Britain embargoes "military" items (e.g., aircraft engines and gasoline), but permits such "civilian" exports as automobiles, chemicals, textile machinery. The Tory government even allows Peking to buy antibiotics...
...South Africa's laws whenever he may consider that "public safety" demands it. The law would allow the government-and Swart specifically-to proclaim a state of emergency throughout South Africa, or in any part of it, and then suspend all civil rights, censor or suspend the press, prohibit public assembly, confiscate property, search and seize, create concentration camps. Swart could keep the emergency measures in force indefinitely, simply by renewing the proclamation...