How to Use proscription in a Sentence

proscription

noun

• The news of Mann’s proscription should not have come as a surprise.
  — Duncan White, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• When their relationship began, in the fall of 2016, old proscriptions were triggered in force, but Harry would have none of it.
  — Michael Joseph Gross, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2018
• In 2016, the legislature, as part of a comprehensive bill, passed a seven-day cap on initial proscription for acute pain.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 7 July 2017
• Since glass and metal can be used as weapons, the proscription against them is presumably for security reasons.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• The new galley, like the current one, will prepare takeout meals for the 41 captives consistent with Islam’s halal proscriptions for delivery to the cellblocks.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
• As my colleague Olga Khazan wrote in 2013, the proscription was both cultural and religious.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• That’s to maximize choices, Norris said, rather than any proscription away from building smaller.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
• Bigwigs attending Wednesday’s opening in Davos were greeted by a large poster illustrating the proscription and warning of a $4 fine for fashionistas tempted to break the ban.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2004
• Chairman Conne Bisbee concurred, as did others on the board after a proscription against parole violations, even the simplest.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 20 July 2017
• If approved by the court, the proscription could serve as a legal weapon and basis for the government in securing court clearances to put rebel leaders and fighters under surveillance and freeze their bank accounts and assets, Ong said.
  — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
• Jonathan approves the proscription of Boko Haram and splinter group Ansaru as terrorist organizations.
  — CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• Rushdie, who had spent decades under proscription by Iran, was on a ventilator Friday evening after undergoing hours of surgery, according to an email from his agent, Andrew Wylie.
  — Hurubie Meko, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
• The U.S. Constitution is notable for its focus on proscriptions rather than prescriptions.
  — Fortune, 8 May 2017
• There is indeed a great deal of evidence that most acquired characteristics are not inherited, but as the new findings have shown, this proscription is not absolute.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2017
• The legal assertion that life begins at conception has implications for IVF, and pro-life groups in this country and abroad have argued for a proscription not only of embryo research but also of the freezing and disposal of embryos.
  — Laura Beers, CNN, 27 May 2022
• In 2013, Putin passed the infamous gay-propaganda law, which criminalized the spreading of information about gay rights to minors (among other anti-gay proscriptions).
  — Mike Mariani, The Hive, 9 Apr. 2017
• Those cases, however, turned on the Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2018
• To be sure, South Korea has no visible nuclear program or announced plans for it, but an international proscription is another matter.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
• Never mind that the dossier to back this most recent proscription, reportedly based on intelligence gathered by Israel’s domestic security agency Shin Bet, has been debunked.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021
• There are still some legal gray areas through which such techniques could reemerge — for example, how to interpret domestic and international legal proscriptions, for example — but that’s not the only concern about Haspel’s nomination.
  — Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
• Accordingly, if Prop 1 passed, individual business owners or private citizens could take it upon themselves to decide how to enforce Prop 1's proscriptions.
  — Bill Evans, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
• States with nuclear weapons often leave ambiguity in their doctrines to prevent adversaries from exploiting gaps in their proscriptions and to preserve flexibility.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• Such a proscription wouldn’t significantly lower domestic gasoline prices because many U.S. refiners are built to process heavier crudes different from the lighter grades extracted domestically.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2022
• The movie asks us to weigh statuatory biblical proscriptions against homosexuals against more overarching concepts of mercy and forgiveness.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• At the same time, different Amish communities have different sorts of religious proscriptions—some reject rubber wheels, for example, while others embrace them—so Pioneer offers roughly 90 different options.
  — Adam Davidson, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• Although there remains a conflict of laws, given the federal government's continued proscriptions against pot, the marijuana economy is nevertheless flourishing.
  — Edvard Pettersson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Whatever its claims to intimacy or revelation, the book is really an extended tribute to the comforts of Amis’s favorite forms of armored thinking—dichotomy, taxonomy, generalization, definition, prescription, and proscription.
  — Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024