prohibition on/against• Soon afterwards, a prohibition onalienation was introduced: property under bequest was not to be alienated.• Another method of subordination is a prohibition onrepayment of the debt whilst other creditors remain unpaid.• In spite of ecclesiasticalprohibitions onusury, the Lancastrians and their predecessors had certainly borrowed at interest, often surreptitiously.• Community members are looking at tribal sovereignty as a way to get around federal prohibitions on hemp.• All reservists had a 60-day window to sign up and there was no prohibition on those who already got their orders.• The bill also repealsprohibitions on local phone companies to provide video services.• It recommended that the prohibition oncontingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.• Robin Lakoff suggests that the prohibition on women using language forcefully extends to nonstandard pronunciation as well.
Prohibition noun
the period from 1919 to 1933 in the US when the production and sale of alcoholic drinks was illegal 禁酒时期〔1919至1933年间美国禁止生产和销售酒的时期〕
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Prohibition• Another significantaspect of the meeting was the openness of debate. Prohibition was not unquestioningly supported.• For some reason, the wholeextraordinary saga of San Diego and Tijuana during Prohibition has been forgotten.• He has made more business for an undertaker than any other one thing, with the exception of Prohibition.• As home-brewing returns, some groups are striving to bring back a milderversion of Prohibition.• The license had been in his continuouspossession since Prohibition ended in 1933.• They were known as Wets, and the Wets claimed that Prohibition would result in drinkersswitching from drink to drugs.