forbidding

IPA: fɝbˈɪdɪŋ

Examples of "forbidding" in Sentences

The terrain for the line proved forbidding.
Her attitude is rather forbidding and uncommunicative.
It is the precept forbidding killing that wields the sword.
The elative is used in the sense of forbidding or discouraging an action.
I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the USflag ...
Conservative Jews have no interest in forbidding other people from mixing meat and dairy.
A rock face, so forbidding from a distance, shows fracture lines from close up: nothing is forever, everything changes.
Finally, I call forbidding wounded patients in that hospital from speaking out not only unpatriotic but also unconstitutional -- and how about inhumane?
But my preferred way of thinking about such things would at least be open to the possibility that there might be a sufficiently compelling state interest in forbidding it.
Given the fact that “wearing the colors” is considered to be deliberate disrespect by members of another gang, I think the school was justified in forbidding the wearing of the US flag, in this case.
As a critique of U. S.-funded programs, however, it is narrowly focused, citing only two such initiatives as examples, and these in forbidding Kandahar and Helmand, home to the bulk of the insurgency.