Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...world community today, supported by numerous Security Council resolutions, affirms that East Jerusalem is occupied territory under international law and is part of the Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967. Israeli actions are in defiance of the Geneva conventions which prohibit settlement activity on occupied territory...
...chooses. The case, which pitted hardline Islamists against human rights advocates, was initiated last year by the parents of a young woman named Saima Waheed. They disapproved of her choice of husband and w anted her marriage annulled. Lawyers for Saima's parents argued that the tenets of Islam prohibit women from marrying without parental permission -- and indeed such permission is the norm in Pakistan. The judges ruled that Saima's marriage was valid a nd did not violate Islamic doctrine. What the split on was whether the law permits women to make their own choices in marriage...