forbidding

The consensus leans toward forbidding it, though some people of knowledge think it permissible.

Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.

As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

“Mujahid pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Islamic State commanding good and forbidding evil,” it reads.

Last year Russia passed a law forbidding “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations,” allegedly to protect kids.

Some peculiar lines between these contracted brows gave a character of ferocity to this forbidding and sensual face.

She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

But at Orleans he received an angry message from Bonaparte forbidding him to return to Paris.

In the commands forbidding Israel to enter into covenant with the Canaanites, or their gods, the phrase is used.

On July 19 a proclamation was issued forbidding the possession of firearms without licence.