barring
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- n the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
- v prevent from entering; keep out
- v render unsuitable for passage
- v expel, as if by official decree
- v secure with, or as if with, bars
- As supervisor, Milk sponsored only two laws predictably, one barring anti-gay discrimination, and, less so, a law forcing dog owners to clean pets' messes from sidewalks.
- But in Britain, the Thatcher government quickly won a court order barring the press from even discussing Wright's disclosures.
- In a compromise that unites Europe's departments of environment and fisheries, the commission lent its support to a proposal that, barring new scientific evidence, would list .