Prohibition
noun
The act of not allowing something to be done or used.
The government has put a prohibition on smoking in public places.
Often appears as...
- prohibition era
- prohibition laws
noun
A law or regulation that stops something from being done.
The new city ordinance is a prohibition against the use of plastic bags at grocery stores.
Often appears as...
- enforce prohibition
- prohibition order
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Formal
noun
The period from 1920 to 1933 in the USA when the sale of alcoholic drinks was illegal.
Bootleggers thrived during the Prohibition, smuggling alcohol into the country.
Often appears as...
- during prohibition
- prohibition agent
noun
The act of not allowing something to be done or used.
The government has put a prohibition on smoking in public places.
Often appears as...
- prohibition era
- prohibition laws
noun
A law or regulation that stops something from being done.
The new city ordinance is a prohibition against the use of plastic bags at grocery stores.
Often appears as...
- enforce prohibition
- prohibition order
Usage tips
Formal
noun
The period from 1920 to 1933 in the USA when the sale of alcoholic drinks was illegal.
Bootleggers thrived during the Prohibition, smuggling alcohol into the country.
Often appears as...
- during prohibition
- prohibition agent
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Government Action
Prohibition usually involves an official decision by authorities.
Local prohibition on the use of fireworks is strictly enforced.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Laws
Prohibition can refer to any kind of ban, not only legal ones.
The school's prohibition of cell phones during class is new.
Pro Tip 3/3Broad Usage
Use 'prohibition' to talk about bans in different contexts, formal and informal.
There's a social prohibition against discussing salary at the dinner table.
Pro Tip 1/3Government Action
Prohibition usually involves an official decision by authorities.
Local prohibition on the use of fireworks is strictly enforced.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Laws
Prohibition can refer to any kind of ban, not only legal ones.
The school's prohibition of cell phones during class is new.
Pro Tip 3/3Broad Usage
Use 'prohibition' to talk about bans in different contexts, formal and informal.
There's a social prohibition against discussing salary at the dinner table.
Pro Tip 1/3Government Action
Prohibition usually involves an official decision by authorities.
Local prohibition on the use of fireworks is strictly enforced.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Laws
Prohibition can refer to any kind of ban, not only legal ones.
The school's prohibition of cell phones during class is new.
Pro Tip 3/3Broad Usage
Use 'prohibition' to talk about bans in different contexts, formal and informal.
There's a social prohibition against discussing salary at the dinner table.
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe make sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do. When I thought about my grandmother, of course she would think all her grandkids were special. My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.
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Prohibition criminalizes...
ingrained aspect of any advanced culture that could never be wiped out by prohibition in his view the greatest harm in our culture's relationships with with drugs was the absence of a safe supply and lack of honest information about responsible use and risks this harm is a direct
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Prohibition: Banning...
it was clear that Prohibition had not brought the social improvements it had promised. Instead it contributed to political corruption and organized crime and was flouted by millions of citizens. At one raid on an Detroit beer hall, the local sheriff, mayor and a congressman
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Does "The Wonderful...
Other scholars took up the theme, and the proposed analogies and connections multiplied. They suggested that Dorothy's dog Toto represented the teetotalers of the prohibition party. Oz was clearly the abbreviation for ounces, an important unit in the silver debate.
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The deadly genius of...
between our policies of prohibition and our actual behavior of tolerance or even encouragement of consumption. These organizations service, recruit from, and operate within our communities, so necessarily, they are much more integrated
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In Gorgeous Palau,...
prohibition or a no take and they would say stop fishing and this particular area and everybody goes to other part of the river and they found out that by doing that the marine life finds a space for them to rehabilitate themselves to
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The laws that sex...
and punished through prohibitionist law. I don't think this is an accident. These laws have political support precisely because they target people that voters don't want to see or know about. Why else might people support prohibition?
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Laws that choke...
We live in this weird time. It's kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that's what I -- we are doing to our kids.
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We Could Kick-Start Life...
Does life, as a chemical system capable of formulating, and in some cases answering, questions about its own existence, have a responsibility or should have a prohibition against sponsoring more life across the universe?
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Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
That's my drug education Safety first. So this is what I've dedicated my life to, to building an organization and a movement of people who believe we need to turn our backs on the failed prohibitions of the past
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe make sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do. When I thought about my grandmother, of course she would think all her grandkids were special. My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.
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Prohibition criminalizes...
ingrained aspect of any advanced culture that could never be wiped out by prohibition in his view the greatest harm in our culture's relationships with with drugs was the absence of a safe supply and lack of honest information about responsible use and risks this harm is a direct
Video examples
Prohibition: Banning...
it was clear that Prohibition had not brought the social improvements it had promised. Instead it contributed to political corruption and organized crime and was flouted by millions of citizens. At one raid on an Detroit beer hall, the local sheriff, mayor and a congressman
Video examples
Does "The Wonderful...
Other scholars took up the theme, and the proposed analogies and connections multiplied. They suggested that Dorothy's dog Toto represented the teetotalers of the prohibition party. Oz was clearly the abbreviation for ounces, an important unit in the silver debate.
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The deadly genius of...
between our policies of prohibition and our actual behavior of tolerance or even encouragement of consumption. These organizations service, recruit from, and operate within our communities, so necessarily, they are much more integrated
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In Gorgeous Palau,...
prohibition or a no take and they would say stop fishing and this particular area and everybody goes to other part of the river and they found out that by doing that the marine life finds a space for them to rehabilitate themselves to
Video examples
The laws that sex...
and punished through prohibitionist law. I don't think this is an accident. These laws have political support precisely because they target people that voters don't want to see or know about. Why else might people support prohibition?
Video examples
Laws that choke...
We live in this weird time. It's kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that's what I -- we are doing to our kids.
Video examples
We Could Kick-Start Life...
Does life, as a chemical system capable of formulating, and in some cases answering, questions about its own existence, have a responsibility or should have a prohibition against sponsoring more life across the universe?
Video examples
Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
That's my drug education Safety first. So this is what I've dedicated my life to, to building an organization and a movement of people who believe we need to turn our backs on the failed prohibitions of the past
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George Soros
Hungarian Businessman
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
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Scott Pruitt
American Politician
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.
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Erik Erikson
American Psychologist
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
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Lauren DeStefano
American Author
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
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P. Chidambaram
Indian Politician
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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Bernard Tschumi
Swiss Architect
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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Jello Biafra
American Musician
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
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N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian Politician
I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.
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Will Rogers
American Actor
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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George Soros
Hungarian Businessman
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
Quote examples
Scott Pruitt
American Politician
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.
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Erik Erikson
American Psychologist
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.
Quote examples
Lauren DeStefano
American Author
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
Quote examples
P. Chidambaram
Indian Politician
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
Quote examples
Bernard Tschumi
Swiss Architect
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Quote examples
Jello Biafra
American Musician
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
Quote examples
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian Politician
I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.
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Will Rogers
American Actor
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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