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prohibition

1. (esp in the US) a policy of legally forbidding the manufacture, transportation, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages except for medicinal or scientific purposes
2. Law an order of a superior court (in Britain the High Court) forbidding an inferior court to determine a matter outside its jurisdiction

Prohibition

the period (1920--33) when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was banned by constitutional amendment in the US
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Prohibition

resurgence of American puritanism (1920–1933). [Am. Hist.: Allen, 14–15]

Prohibition

(1919–1933) period when selling and consuming liquor was against the law. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2710]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Leisure entrepreneur Mitch Mitchell is moving his 1920s and '30s focused venue intoNewcastle's Jazz Cafe, three years after first launching Prohibition Cabaret Bar as the region's very first vaudeville and music-hall themed bar in a converted railway arch.
MCC0004273 Notice is hereby given that the Council intends, not less than 7 days from the date of this Notice, to make the following Temporary Road Traffic Orders: The City of Manchester (RINGWAY ROAD and SHADOW MOSS ROAD, WOODHOUSE PARK) (Temporary One Way Traffic, Prohibition of Right Hand Turn, Prohibition of Pedestrian Traffic) Order 2018 under s14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 11 ( ANI ): Bihar Cabinet Secretary Arun Kumar Singh said that the Government will present an amendment law on liquor prohibition act in the monsoon session of the state assembly.
Despite a seemingly straightforward absolute prohibition on torture as expressed in the relevant international instruments, a concerning shift towards a form of situational permissiveness with regards to wartime torture is clearly discernible.
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