criminal prohibition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcriminalandprohibition
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criminal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkrɪm.ɪ.nəl/us/ˈkrɪm.ə.nəl/
relating ...
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prohibition
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌprəʊ.ɪˈbɪʃ.ən/us/ˌproʊ.ɪˈbɪʃ.ən/
the act of officially not allowing something, or an order that ...
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(Definition ofcriminalandprohibitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcriminal prohibition
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Yet harm is not enough to justifycriminalprohibition.
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Only "wrongs done to the victim" are candidates forcriminalprohibition.
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If this is right, we can argue forcriminalprohibitionof such contests from within grievance morality.
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The action itself, not anything consequent upon it, is the wrong, and that wrong is sufficient reason to consider it eligible forcriminalprohibition.
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The case forcriminalprohibitionis as compelling as ever, but the gladiators' consent has put that case beyond the reach of the political community.
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This must be kept in mind as we consider possible extensions of the argument for the legitimacy ofcriminalprohibitionof gladiatorial contests.
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The argument forcriminalprohibitionof the behavior involved in these cases is intuitively powerful and not plausibly dismissed as irrelevant to the issue.
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He certainly holds that antipaternalism holds absolutely: harm to a person who consents to absorb it is never a good reason forcriminalprohibition.
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The evils or wrongs that are identified as legitimate grounds forcriminalprohibitionmust be shown to be evils suffered by or wrongs done to individual moral persons by others.
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Having a generalcriminalprohibitionagainst insult may make more sense in a highlyordered society with well-established patterns of deference and civility than in a more loosely organized, rough-and-tumble society.
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Often the provincial suspensions are more severe than thecriminalprohibition.
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We chose to place nocriminalprohibitioneven on a minor that bought from a retailer that was selling illegally, which, he explained, addressed the issue of transferred intent.
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