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The idea is to prohibit further use of a criminal implement.

Gary Marbut

The bigger issue here is, to me, that when we can't access our neighbors with food, then farming just dries up. The fact is that all these hurdles that prohibit local food commerce keep what would be millions of dollars circulating in the rural local economy are therefore denied to the local economy. So farmers go out of business and sell to developers.

Joel Salatin

The Fletcher bill...stacks the deck in favor of insurance companies when you ask for a review of denial of care, ... It does not prohibit insurance companies from using financial incentives to penalize your doctor for authorizing care. The insurance companies may like the Fletcher bill, but doctors and patients don't.

Jim Turner

Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.

Bob Ayers

The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

If they are breaking the law already, a new measurement will not prohibit them from sending those e-mails. But it will be horribly painful to legitimate e-mail marketers.

Louis Mastria

Tough federal and state laws should be enacted to prohibit predatory lending.

Mike Turner

It is not that anybody wants to prohibit work, but we can't have noise like that that early in the morning, ... There is an expectation that there shouldn't be loud noises going on at that time.

Mike Scott

The Legislature passed a law that says local governments cannot prohibit a methadone clinic. We could have gone to court, and we would have lost. It was a waste of taxpayer money.

Marc Boldt

There is no ambiguity here. It's beyond question the courts may not issue an injunction prohibiting further reporting in this case.

Peter Scheer

To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

There's no law prohibiting the former speaker from taking a position in the private sector.

Stephen Mulloney

We have firm policies prohibiting payola and requiring compliance with the federal sponsor identification rules , and we enforce them. We have cooperated fully with the attorney general's office in this investigation. Now that the attorney general has filed this civil action, we are confident that the issues will be fully and fairly resolved by the court.

Adam Miller

What the government can regulate is the time, place and manner. The government has ways they can regulate and not prohibit speech.

John Blakeman

Congressman Brady has held this principled and widely known position since he entered Congress: federal law is clear the agreement between the state and the tribe prohibiting gaming has never changed.

Sarah Stephens

I don't know how they can look at what they are trying to do and come to any other conclusion in that a constitutional amendment to prohibit my family from access to civil marriage is just discrimination, pure and simple.

Lisa Polyak

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

William Orville Douglas

I don't think there is any question that the law would prohibit it.

Tim Thornton

At the very least, the public has a right to know about the use of carbon monoxide in their food. If the FDA won't prohibit it, the government should require a label that informs consumers about the presence of carbon monoxide and the health dangers it presents.

Don Berdahl

It's a significant issue. It's an issue that would prohibit a manned mission to Mars.

Scott Aker

The amendment goes far beyond just defining marriage between a man and a woman. What it does is prohibit recognition for all unmarried couples in the state.

Dyana Mason

Muslims are required to follow the law of the land and since the law of Australia prohibits a second marriage, Islamic law will also prohibit it.

Islamic Council

It's an extremely broad bill. When talking about political activity, it would prohibit us from talking to employees about government contracts and actions at the state, federal and local levels.

Bonnie Stewart

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Phyllis Schlafly

Prohibiting direct transactions between producers and consumers only results in paralyzing competition and consumer choice.

Michael Ballard

You can't prohibit them, but you can control them.

Jim Collins

These funds do not pay for abortion services. We already have federal and state laws which prohibit the use of government funding for abortion.

Danielle Tierney

The new UN resolution should prohibit defamation of all prophets and faiths.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu