8 sentences with 'forbidden'
Example sentences and phrases with the word forbidden and other words derived from it.
• « In Carthage, newlyweds were forbidden to drink on their wedding night, lest they give birth to a malformed child. »
• « The Roman equites, however, were wealthy, and benefited from the fact that senators were formally forbidden to engage in commerce from the end of the 3rd century BCE. »
• « Henry VIII (r. 1509 - 1547) had received a special dispensation from the papacy to marry his brother's widow (a practice forbidden in the Old Testament of the Bible), Catherine of Aragon, aunt of Charles V and therefore a member of the most powerful royal line in Europe. Catherine, however, was only able to give Henry one daughter, Mary, and did not have a son. »
• « Simultaneously, Henry VIII petitioned the Pope for a divorce, a practice that was strictly forbidden. The Pope refused, and defiantly in 1531 Henry, under the auspices of a compliant local Catholic leader, divorced Catherine and married Anne. »
• « Paul IV (r. 1555 - 1559) created the "Index" of forbidden books (in 1549) which was to form the basis of royal censorship in all Catholic countries for the next two centuries. »
• « In many continental kingdoms, members of the nobility were forbidden to actively engage in trade until the period of the French Revolution. »
• « Workers were forbidden to form trade unions and even the relatively prosperous bourgeois were not wealthy enough to vote. »