Usually what they propose are outright bans or regulations that are akin to a near prohibition on the use of new technology.

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The purpose of this prohibition is to prevent exploitation from the use of money and to share profit and loss.

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She was issued with a prohibition notice concerning the use of an attic room with no stair banisters and limiting the occupation to herself and four others.

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Regulation covers a broad range of government interventions (prohibition, antitrust, product specifications, transparency, use of particular institutional markets, and on and on), but in each case, it affects commerce that arises from willing and able buyers and sellers.

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Large parts of the City of Ann Arbor and parts of Scio Township have now been placed in a Groundwater Use Prohibition Zone (PZ) by the court, as the plume is now being allowed to flow through the city to vent into the Huron River.

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In the 1930s, the National Firearms Act was an attempt to curb the use of sawn-off shotguns, which had become popular with the mob during prohibition.

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