How to Use proscription in a Sentence

proscription

noun

• The news of Mann’s proscription should not have come as a surprise.
  — Duncan White, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• How can that proscription be preserved amid current world tensions?
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
• How have protests and arrests unfolded since the proscription?
  — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
• The draft proscription order will reach the House of Lords on Thursday.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 2 July 2025
• Yet despite these disquieting trends, the eight-decade-long proscription against nuclear weapons use has not been breached.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
• Rasoulof shifts his tale into a cautionary proscription that is artful and mythic.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
• Since glass and metal can be used as weapons, the proscription against them is presumably for security reasons.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• That’s to maximize choices, Norris said, rather than any proscription away from building smaller.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
• Chamberlain added that Cooper, who brought forward the proscription order, could have consulted the group prior to the move.
  — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
• In July, the group secured permission to contest its proscription at a high court in November.
  — Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
• On Palestine Action and how governments weaponize proscription against activists.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Aug. 2025
• When their relationship began, in the fall of 2016, old proscriptions were triggered in force, but Harry would have none of it.
  — Michael Joseph Gross, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2018
• In 2016, the legislature, as part of a comprehensive bill, passed a seven-day cap on initial proscription for acute pain.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 7 July 2017
• Palestine Action’s leaders are mounting a legal appeal to the proscription decision, which the government is obliged to hear.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2025
• There’s something disturbing about these proscriptions, which is why both Kalmey and Miola identify them as critical.
  — JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
• Chairman Conne Bisbee concurred, as did others on the board after a proscription against parole violations, even the simplest.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 20 July 2017
• The High Court judges said that while some of those crimes amounted to terrorist acts, they could be criminally prosecuted regardless of proscription.
  — ABC News, 15 June 2026
• Jonathan approves the proscription of Boko Haram and splinter group Ansaru as terrorist organizations.
  — CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• As my colleague Olga Khazan wrote in 2013, the proscription was both cultural and religious.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
• The announcement Monday regarding the new proscription-like measures has been welcomed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
  — Tiago Ventura, Time, 13 July 2026
• The new galley, like the current one, will prepare takeout meals for the 41 captives consistent with Islam’s halal proscriptions for delivery to the cellblocks.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
• Those cases, however, turned on the Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2018
• For these young Muslims, the process of renouncing one’s faith often took a ritualized form, emanating from the prescriptions and proscriptions of Islam.
  — Darren E. Sherkat, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2015
• To be sure, South Korea has no visible nuclear program or announced plans for it, but an international proscription is another matter.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
• This was characterized by zero tolerance for misdemeanors and the aggressive control or physical proscription of public areas for the purposes of peaceful protest.
  — Kylie Bourne, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2015
• Bigwigs attending Wednesday’s opening in Davos were greeted by a large poster illustrating the proscription and warning of a $4 fine for fashionistas tempted to break the ban.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2004
• Of course, deportation or removal from the United States isn’t the same as death; Rubio’s unilateral visa revocation isn’t the same as the proscription.
  — JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
• If approved by the court, the proscription could serve as a legal weapon and basis for the government in securing court clearances to put rebel leaders and fighters under surveillance and freeze their bank accounts and assets, Ong said.
  — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
• States with nuclear weapons often leave ambiguity in their doctrines to prevent adversaries from exploiting gaps in their proscriptions and to preserve flexibility.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• Washington also secured buy-in for a proscription against the use of force to alter international boundaries, helping lock in place a status quo that has benefited the United States.
  — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023