Meanings of total prohibition in English

Some States which had enacted total prohibition forty years before had repealed the law.

They clearly favour temperance reform, but are by no means unanimous for total prohibition.

The clergy of Boston petitioned the Legislature for a total prohibition of the foreign slave-trade.

It had been arranged that Mr. Smith should run on a platform of total prohibition.

Nothing short of a total prohibition of outwork imposed on employers would be effectual here.

The MNF has said that if it comes to power, it will revert to total prohibition.

Never before did society witness a total prohibition of all intercourse like this in a commercial nation.

Their principal charge is, that those who oppose the bill recommend a total prohibition of all spirits.

The Middle States and Virginia made us no such proposition; they were for an immediate and total prohibition.

We had hardly got well upon the street before I realized the enormous change that total prohibition had effected.

The total prohibition of shooting on the water or banks is also producing the usual effect on the other birds and beasts.

This philosophy advocated the total prohibition of signing among children in order to enhance other communication skills such as lip-reading and speech.

It went on to say that the effect of smoking on health is enough to justify a total prohibition at health care facilities.

The Southern members, said he, were anxious for nothing so much as a total prohibition, and for that reason were insistent upon forfeiture.

He was now accused by the opposition of aiming at a total prohibition of foreign goods regardless of the resulting distress to the consumer.

Maine introduced total prohibition in 1851, and before long thirteen other states had joined them, although nine soon repealed the laws or declared them unconstitutional.