Word: prohibitive
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...prudent to prohibit drinking by people under the age of 21. The way we enforce such a law is very imprudent. Laws on carrying false identification, selling alcohol to a minor, providing alcohol to a minor or minor-in-possession should be prohibitively severe. Two benefits would come from people truly fearing the punishment that would follow these crimes...
Citing trimmed hedges, newly-laid mulch and the addition of signs which prohibit overnight parking, Alami said that since the University announced its ownership, Beal's maintenance of the parking lot has gotten better...
...according to Gila Reinstein in the Yale Office of Public Affairs, "Yale has a nondiscrimination policy and would not prohibit individuals from using the chapel for same-sex commitment purposes...
...crackdown will force manufacturers to limit the amount of the stimulant these substances can contain, force manufacturers to include labels warning that excessive use can cause death, and direct them to abandon claims that ephedrine helps users to build muscle and lose weight. The regulations will also prohibit manufacturers from recommending use for more than seven consecutive days. The move follows a recent FDA proposal which attempted to curb the use of Herbal Ecstasy, an ephedrine-based product which promised users a "natural high." Ephedrine supplements net between $15 and $30 million a year for leading manufacturers...
...people who hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle engines, are loud, dirty and dangerous and that they intrude on quieter users of public lands. Most national parks tightly restrict their use; California's Yosemite and Montana's Glacier national parks prohibit them outright...