Meanings of absolute prohibition in English

No tariff short of absolute prohibition can prevent these evil consequences.

There was also growing indifference to the torture of enemy soldiers, despite its absolute prohibition.

A fixed and suitable dietary for criminals, together with an absolute prohibition of intoxicating drinks.

A suitably qualified permission, as every statesman knows, may produce the social effects without producing the irksome pressure of an absolute prohibition.

Yet the absolute prohibition of foreign travel, or the exclusion of strangers, is impossible, and would appear barbarous to the rest of mankind.

Napoleon, supremely devoted to the development of the manufacturing resources of France, encouraged those manufactures by the almost absolute prohibition of the rival articles.

But the goal to be kept in sight can only be absolute prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and importation of all alcoholic liquors for beverages.

There could be "legitimate transfers", she said, because the US believes the United Nations resolution on Libya overrides "the absolute prohibition" on arms shipments.

Those different restraints consisted sometimes in high duties, and sometimes in absolute prohibitions.

These different restraints consisted sometimes in high duties, and sometimes in absolute prohibitions.

Even between neighboring English colonies trade was hampered by restrictions or absolute prohibitions.

Absolute prohibition is the law of that community.

The exportation of the materials of manufacture is sometimes discouraged by absolute prohibitions, and sometimes by high duties.

The exportation, however, of the instruments of trade, properly so called, is commonly restrained, not by high duties, but by absolute prohibitions.