So life is supported by Islam. Therefore oppression and aggression are forbidden, whereas mercy,tolerance, kindness and charity are commanded."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

But by the 1960s, cigar manufacturing had become highly mechanized, the government was heavily taxing tobacco products, and the importation of fine-leaf tobacco from Communist Cuba was forbidden.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Any mention of the Holodomor was strictly forbidden in the USSR.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"I learned by studying, that suicide is forbidden in Islam, and killing of innocents is forbidden in Islam, and even cutting down trees in a defensive battle is forbidden.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

(Sound) Chanting the Yiddish word for Sabbath,they charged that work is forbidden on the holy day of rest according to the Bible and called on the company to stay closed on Saturdays.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Under Islamic,or Sharia,law, charging interest is forbidden.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

U.S.officials said no part of the three-stage vehicle reached orbit, and that in any case it amounted to a long-range ballistic missile test forbidden under a Security Council resolution that followed its October 2006 nuclear test.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

At the same time al-Arabiya TV reported that Grand Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, who is a reformist cleric, had issued a religious edict proclaiming that Mr.Ahmedinejad was "not the president and that it is forbidden to cooperate with his government."

VOA: standard.2009.06.14