Prohibitionism

In the case of the WoD, the anti – prohibitionism is what’s partisan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The best most generous and least paranoid of my theories holds that "prohibitionism" is a sort of natural human impulse, and virtually garaunteed to emerge at various times. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So is prohibitionism — what draws partisan lines is the question of what to prohibit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But prohibitionism has its creative and radical exponents too, not least Costa, who argues: "Why open the floodgates to addiction by increasing access to drugs?" ❋ Unknown (2011)

Barnum was among hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned toward prohibitionism because, he wrote, “Neal Dow may God bless him! had opened our eyes.” ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

Republican politicians, fearing that prohibitionism was divisive and might weaken the unity that had formed in the young party around the slavery issue, began to tiptoe around it. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

Then the Democrat focused on attacking Paul's anti-prohibitionism in the general election. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Christian attitudes today toward alcohol include a whole spectrum from moderationism to prohibitionism, with the prevailing condemnation of inebriation as sinful and destructive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But in the 19th century, in response to a growing awareness of the scourge of alcoholism, temperance (abstaining from alcohol as a spiritual practice) and eventually prohibitionism (outlawing the consumption of alcohol altogether as inherently sinful) became part of the Christian cultural norm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is nothing inconsistent with abortion prohibitionism and support for the death penalty, for example, or the war in Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even then, people of non-faith tried to beat off the religious prohibitionism that strove to close the country down on Sundays, to suppress music, dancing, baseball, Sabbath smooching and the joy of life and replace it with on-your-knees worship and clerical rule. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She was a complex woman who was very expansive in terms of her personality, in addition to the rigidity of her prohibitionism. ❋ Unknown (2001)

And there were saloons in this town that she would try to instruct in terms of her prohibitionism, and you know, the saloon keepers just couldn't really give a rap about her messages. ❋ Unknown (2001)

She was very enterprising that way, and it was very interesting to read the diaries and -- and -- and the records of people from that time who would not have really paid any attention to her prohibitionism, but they wanted a hatchet. ❋ Unknown (2001)