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• Newspapers and television viewing are largely proscribed and inmates are often unable to contact their families for months.
• If we were proscribed we would go underground, and anything that's underground surfaces.
• For example, battery under the common law was a general intent crime requiring the perp's awareness that he is acting in a proscribed manner.
• In some cultures surgery is proscribed.
• In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• These changes open the doors to many previously proscribed activities, including logging, road-building, oil drilling and even polluting.
• There are numbers of organisations that have been proscribed.
• The gangs of feral youths that "own" the streets now know that the chances of a policeman catching them in the act of mugging a passerby are almost zero, the chances of any CCTV actually working or producing a decent image or not being used to take photos of cars parked six inches onto a yellow line or one minute into a proscribed period are also nil and even if caught the chances of being charged let alone convicted are somewhat slim and as for having to go to prison for more than six months, the odds are infinitesimal. Archive 2008-01-01
• Many Shiite clergymen maintain that birth control is proscribed by Islam.
• But this project went unrealized, and after Caesar's assassination he was proscribed by Mark Antony: his library at Casinum was plundered, but he escaped to live the rest of his life in scholarly retirement.