Word: prohibitively
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Monday, by a wider margin than many had anticipated, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to prohibit the practice of student-led prayers before football games. The widely anticipated decision was a rebuke to the Santa Fe, Texas, school district, which had long maintained the rights of students to lead pre-game "invocations" (the contents of which were generally left up to the students). Before two local families filed a suit against the district in 1995, many schools allowed student-elected "chaplains" to lead prayers before the games; after the suit, however, the "invocations" were introduced...
Some Orthodox Jews hold that the laws of their faith prohibit their entering a church...
...plan reflects a profound hostility to Microsoft's efforts to make products that work well with one another. For example, the plan would effectively prohibit the new Windows and applications companies from engaging in technical discussions to develop new versions of Windows and Office. Such close cooperation would be impossible under the DOJ plan because it mandates that no technical information can be discussed that is not "simultaneously published" to the entire computer industry, which would be a practical impossibility...
Grogan says the lengthy zoning procedures and extensive community involvement slow and often prohibit potential projects...
Unquestionably, the viability of the fetus is far more important than its location in the body. Were states permitted to ban all procedures that kill the fetus, "it would authorize them to prohibit all abortions," Heller said...