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"Prohibition" in a Sentence (14 examples)
During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket.
The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.
Prohibition is hereby officially prohibited.
During the 1920's alcohol prohibition in the United States, whiskey could be obtained legally with a doctor's prescription.
For a prohibition to be accepted with respect, the reasons for it should be logical and clear.
Tom climbed over the high wire fence in order to get into the old factory in spite of his father's prohibition.
However, this prohibition does not apply if you use an air rifle, air pistol, or .22-caliber rimfire firearm for the control of listed birds.
Prohibition isn't taken seriously by anyone.
The Volstead Act, better known as the Prohibition, which became the law of the land in 1920, made it a crime to manufacture, sell or transport alcohol.
Hoover was a dry. Franklin Roosevelt was a wet, and when he won the 1932 presidential election over Hoover, it was only a matter of time before Prohibition was finished.
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By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President. Broader language providing that no such person "shall be chosen or serve as President . . . or be eligible to hold the office" was rejected in favor of the Twenty-Second Amendment’s ban merely on election. (Amdt22.1 Overview of Twenty-Second Amendment, Presidential Term Limits, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation)
But the prohibition on active advocacy and participation left a wide margin of allowable activity and was open to interpretation.
Appeals courts, including the 5th Circuit, have in the past upheld the federal ban in question. But more recently, some courts have shown hostility towards gun prohibitions aimed at 18- to 20-year-olds.
First, some persons might consider my advocacy of prohibition rather odd for a congressman coming from the state which produces the finest bourbon whiskey in the world. While this is true, it is also true that prior to the Eighteenth Amendment a large majority of the counties of Kentucky had voted against the sale of liquor under what was known as the county unit plan. Since repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment a substantial majority of Kentucky counties have voted under local option to outlaw liquor. My stand on the question, first in voting for the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment, and later for an amendment to appeal it, was a matter of principle and not of expediency.
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