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prohibitionists

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  • noun Plural form of prohibitionist.

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Examples

  • What I point out in trying to argue in the first section of the book on what I call prohibitionists is that -- and -- and, of course, many

    Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality 1995

  • There are organizations with a protective tariff policy, there are ministerial associations; there are some organizations calling themselves 'prohibitionists'.

    The Open Shop; What Is It? Why Should It Prevail? 1921

  • In that year, hard-drinking newspapermen who frequented Lipton’s saloon in New York City, near the New York Times building, then on Nassau Street, referred to the prohibitionists’ “Blue-Nozzle Curse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In that year, hard-drinking newspapermen who frequented Lipton’s saloon in New York City, near the New York Times building, then on Nassau Street, referred to the prohibitionists’ “Blue-Nozzle Curse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In that year, hard-drinking newspapermen who frequented Lipton’s saloon in New York City, near the New York Times building, then on Nassau Street, referred to the prohibitionists’ “Blue-Nozzle Curse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In that year, hard-drinking newspapermen who frequented Lipton’s saloon in New York City, near the New York Times building, then on Nassau Street, referred to the prohibitionists’ “Blue-Nozzle Curse.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • He called advocates of a statewide ban "prohibitionists" whose real goal is to outlaw smoking.

    South Bend Tribune Top Stories RSS Feed 2008

  • "prohibitionists", like feminist campaigners, only add to the "stigmatising of sex workers".

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • But the GOP prohibitionists will yap and complain and whine even though she'll be confirmed.

    CNN Poll: Majority say confirm Sotomayor to Supreme Court 2009

  • At least prohibitionists are consistent, if consistently idiotic.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Virtue of Quasi-Legal Status for Marijuana 2009

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