Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

One of the conditions of the pool was a prohibition upon the withholding of patent rights among A.L.A.M. members.

He was remembered chiefly for his fearless advocacy of abolition, but he also stood for equal rights for women, for opportunity for the freedmen, and for prohibition.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

Even when, on the invention of gunpowder and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the prohibition was continued.

There was a strong prohibition movement in Berkeley at this time.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

Practical results were mixed and mingled emerged ( such as the debate surrounding the constitutional prohibition of extradition, which later was reversed ), but together with the reincorporation of some of the guerrilla groups to the legal political framework, the new Constitution inaugurated an era that was both a continuation and a gradual, but significant, departure from what had come before.

In little time, in 1890, the recently proclaimed Brazilian Republic decreed the prohibition of capoeira in the whole country, as things were pretty chaotic in the Brazilian capital and many police reports would demonstrate that capoeira was an undeserved advantage in a fight.

In December 2006, a responsum was adopted by the Committee that approved the ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis and permitted commitment ceremonies for lesbian and gay Jews ( but not same-sex marriage ), while maintaining the traditional prohibition against anal sex between men.

Despite the democratic constitution, the government under Chiang was a one-party state, consisting almost completely of mainlanders ; the " Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion " greatly enhanced executive powers, and the goal of retaking mainland China allowed the KMT to maintain a monopoly on power and the prohibition of opposition parties.

As of June 18, 2009, a regional federal court order lifting the prohibition on the sale of Counter-Strike was published.

The prohibition was lifted in 1983, and although fundamental differences between U. S. and Ecuadorian legislation still exist, there is no current conflict.

In 11 CE, Augustus, who enjoyed the games, bent his own rules and allowed equestrians to volunteer because " the prohibition was no use ".

For British Catholics its effects were disastrous both socially and politically: Catholics were denied the right to vote and sit in the Westminster Parliament for over a century ; they were also denied commissions in the army, and the monarch was forbidden to be Catholic or to marry a Catholic, a prohibition still in force.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

Smith was a " wet " who called for its repeal, whereas Hoover gave limited support for prohibition, calling it an " experiment noble in purpose ".

Mainly because of its prohibition of all forms of artificial contraception, the encyclical was controversial, as it rejected the majority report on the subject, embracing a minority report maintaining the status quo, and Paul VI did not issue any additional encyclicals in the remaining ten years of his pontificate.

Other sources note that during his time as Patriarch of Venice that " Luciani was intransigent with his upholding of the teaching of the Church and severe with those, through intellectual pride and disobedience paid no attention to the Church's prohibition of contraception ", though while not condoning the sin, he was tolerant of those who sincerely tried and failed to live up to the Church's teaching.

The king and the royal court were normally located in Jerusalem, but due to the prohibition on Muslim inhabitants, the capital was small and underpopulated.

In Denver, Harding extolled the virtues of the 18th Amendment, saying it should never be repealed, urging that the prohibition laws be obeyed.

( b ) Processes de non cultu were instituted to prove that the decrees of Pope Urban VIII regarding the prohibition of public worship of servants of God before their beatification had been obeyed ; they were generally conducted by the bishop of the place where the relics of the servant of God were preserved.

Wiley Lynn, a self-styled prohibition officer, had hit town the previous day and had been drinking ever since.

A Philadelphia distiller is currently breaching the customary prohibition against hard-liquor advertising on TV and radio.

Even the Distilled Spirits Institute has long had a specific prohibition.

Employer representatives have contended that the Secretary has gone beyond his authority by such a prohibition, on the grounds that the Wagner-Peyser Act requires only written notice to the prospective worker that a dispute exists.

Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes -- among them women's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians.

At the beginning of the war, he also sought to persuade the states to accept compensated emancipation in return for their prohibition of slavery.

Abbots more and more assumed almost episcopal state, and in defiance of the prohibition of early councils and the protests of St Bernard and others, adopted the episcopal insignia of mitre, ring, gloves and sandals.

The prohibition against retaliation or coercion applies broadly to any individual or entity that seeks to prevent an individual from exercising his or her rights or to retaliate against him or her for having exercised those rights ... Any form of retaliation or coercion, including threats, intimidation, or interference, is prohibited if it is intended to interfere.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

The proposed admission to the union of California as a state set off a debate as to whether a prohibition of slavery should be made a condition of admission.

( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.

* 1932 – Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends.

Over the years several violent incidents have taken place involving rival supporters, leading to the current prohibition of away-supporters in both stadiums.

( This prohibition has been relaxed in many Reform and some Conservative congregations.

Roman enforcement of this prohibition continued through the 4th century.

The Emperor Justinian forbade the use of abbreviations in the compilation of the " Digest " and afterwards extended his prohibition to all other writings.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

He saw many business opportunities in Chicago, especially bootlegging following the onset of prohibition.

Blue laws often prohibit an activity only during certain hours and there are usually exceptions to the prohibition of commerce, like grocery and drug stores.

As of 2011, a bill has been proposed in the state legislature to end the prohibition on Sunday liquor sales.

It is of note that the Convention places a general prohibition on the exportation or importation of wastes between Parties and non-Parties.