National Prohibition failed in the US and in other countries.
The UK is a party to the Convention against Torture which imposes an absolute prohibition on torture, with no exceptions.
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Prohibition.
Example sentences for the noun 'prohibition': When I was a kid, there was no prohibition of riding bicycles on the sidewalk. Prohibition is a time period in which alcohol consumption is illegal. It was illegal for Jay Gatsby to drink because of Prohibition, but that didn't stop him from offering his guests a fresh import from France.
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During the 1920s, the United States enforced a nationwide prohibition on the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
Since knives are dangerous the school will prohibit the bringing of knives to school
National Prohibition in the US forbade the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. It did not prohibit the purchase or consumption of such beverages.
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"Many 1930s gangsters got rich selling bootleg liquor during Prohibition."