proscribe

• “When I commented that you were in error in your use of the word proscribe, I meant exactly that, bit.”

  Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.

• “On most washdays I use chlorine bleach on several articles whose labels proscribe it, without the slightest damage, and many of these have been receiving chlorine bleach now and then for years.”

  Simon & Schuster: HOME COMFORTS

• “A draft of the report circulated to SEC commissioners over the weekend didn't proscribe any policy changes, nor did it attempt to nudge regulators to pursue certain reforms, according to a person who has seen it.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Flash Crash' Report Could Come Friday

• “Party officials have suggested they will look to strengthen Tunisia's political and economic ties with fellow Arab-Islamic states in the region and perhaps legalize Islamic banking systems that proscribe interest and relies instead on fees.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Moderate Islamist Party Set to Win Tunisian Vote

• “It was more than just symbolic literary resistance because The Satanic Verses is still banned in India, which enjoys the dubious honour of having been the first country to proscribe the book.”

  The Guardian: Salman Rushdie: a literary giant still beset by bigots | profile

• “Halakhic legal Judaism views all male and female same-sex sexual interactions as prohibited ... and cannot give its blessing and imprimatur to Jewish religious same-sex commitment ceremonies and weddings, and halakhic values proscribe individuals and communities from encouraging practices that grant religious legitimacy to gay marriage and couplehood.”

  The Huffington Post: Warren J. Blumenfeld: LGBT Discrimination And The Promise Of Tikkun Olam

• “Arizona's Proposition 106, which would proscribe a single-payer system (and prohibit various other federal health programs), is a case in point.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Quentin Young: The Midterm Elections and Medicare For All

• “A guess at what would lead Fiske to proscribe “to no end” ‘immensely’ …”

  Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar

• “In the third trimester, even after viability, a state could but did not have to "proscribe" abortion, provided it made exceptions to preserve the life and health of a woman seeking an abortion.”

  The Huffington Post: Frank Schaeffer: The Abortion Wars Will Never Go Away (A Former "Pro-Life" Crusader Reconsiders)

• “Kosher laws also proscribe the eating of meat from sick animals, or the eating of blood (again, probably because of the goal to prevent disease).”

  Matthew Yglesias » Avigdor Lieberman Boosted By Pro-Pork Backlash

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