proscription

How To Use proscription In A Sentence

• Both sets of norms rest ultimately upon a fundamental principle of proscription concerning the infliction of militarily ' unnecessary suffering '.
• But this push is neither a proscription or a requirement for the latter to dominate economic development, or even the socialization process itself.
• Op Ed: Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
• Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
• He also quoted National Institutes of Health bioethicist F.G. Miller, who argued in the Journal of Medical Ethics that ethical proscription against killing by doctors is "debatable.
• The house had been confiscated by Octavian during the wave of proscriptions in the aftermath of the Battle of Philippi from the family of Quintus Hortensius, the famous orator and great rival of Cicero who had amassed a fortune from his legal career and subsequently bequeathed the villa to his daughter Hortensia and son Quintus Hortensius Hortalus. Caesars’ Wives
• Deep down inside, staying alive (a biological imperative) took precedence over social proscriptions against cannibalism.
• Prostitutes plied their trade free of legal or moral proscriptions. A Renegade History of the United States
• Religious opposition to coffee drinking resulted in political proscription a number of times during the sixteenth century.
• The inmates were in wonderment and consternation, and, conduplicated evil! they could make no inquiry for one who lay under the ban of a bloody proscription. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII