0 present participle of prohibit --
1 to officially refuse to allow something: --
The loudness of the music prohibits serious conversation in most nightclubs.
The government introduced a law prohibiting tobacco advertisements on TV.
Motor vehicles are prohibited from driving in the town centre.
There was brief resistance to prohibiting women from working underground.
The equality provision did this by setting out a list of grounds prohibiting discrimination.
Most laws prohibiting attempted crimes are like this.
With respect to phrase-medial position, these include a constraint prohibiting the occurrence of the (underlying) final vowel of a morpheme in an open syllable.
That a type of behavior is condemned by a society's moral consensus provides grounds for legally prohibiting it.
In general, states were careful to allow mergers of railroads that connected to form continuous lines, while prohibiting mergers of competing lines.
First, as a matter of social policy there is no justificatory ground for prohibiting parents from having a child to save a child.
This is achieved by prohibiting practices which cannot be objectively justified and have the effect of disproportionately disadvantaging a particular group.
