prohibitionism

"The modern version of prohibitionism has turned great cities into battlefields."

Prohibitionism based laws have the added problem of calling attention to the behavior that they are attempting to prohibit.

Decades of prohibitionism have done nothing to quench the insatiable American demand for an instant high.

Prohibitionism and the temperance movement had always been at the center of Cotterill's morality.

As a home to saloons and breweries, Georgetown incorporated in 1904 largely as a defense against prohibitionism.

The success of a measure of prohibitionism has been criticized as often depending too much upon effective enforcement of the relevant legislation.

Today, the views on alcohol in Christianity can be divided into moderationism, abstentionism, and prohibitionism.

"Prohibitionism in Canada and the United States," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol.

One last comment: I welcome the fact that this has been a pragmatic debate, not an argument between those wishing to liberalise or legalise drugs and prohibitionism.

The prohibitionist position has experienced a general reduction of support since the days of prohibitionism as a movement, with many of its advocates becoming abstentionists instead.

They either decided that not drinking wine at all was wisest (abstentionism), or that drinking any alcohol was sinful (prohibitionism).

Dry laws were but one aspect of a pervasive prohibitionism that included laws against business or recreation on Sunday as well as attacks on Catholics and immigrants.

'Smoking bans' are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, which prohibitionism tobacco smoking in employments and/or other public spaces.

It is a solution that does not alter the thrust of the policy and that avoids the excesses of moral prohibitionism, as Mr Guardans Cambó rightly pointed out.

Other gains are due partly to the Farm Winery Act signed by Gov. Hugh L. Carey in 1976, which drove a wedge into the legacy of Prohibitionism and enabled farmers to set up their own wineries.

League Issues Statement "The Mafia fears anti-Prohibitionism and not Prohibitionism," said Marco Pannella, a leader of Italy's Radical Party, which sponsored the three-day congress.

Prohibitionism is a legal philosophy and political theory often used in lobbying which holds that citizens will abstain from actions if the actions are typed as unlawful (i.e. prohibited) and the prohibitions are enforced by law enforcement.

As a private club, the Rainier Club had been exempt from Seattle's and Washington's early experiments in Prohibitionism, but when Washington went dry on a statewide basis in 1916, the club could no longer serve liquor by the drink.

But in the same corridors and some of the same offices, the liquor and restaurant industries were out in force as well, issuing gloomy warnings about the fate of America's small businesses, the dawn of a new prohibitionism and a creeping big-brother mood in Washington.

Another timeline, branching off the events of Back to the Future: The Game, sees Irving Kid Tannen, the father of Biff Tannen and a prohibitionism era mafioso, avoid his lengthy arrest for illegal consumption and sale of alcohol.

"The gradually disappearing Prohibitionism in New York's alcoholic-beverage-control laws and an increasingly liberal State Liquor Authority have made wine buying more competitive and more interesting," said Rory P. Callahan, president of Wine and Food Associates, marketing consultants in Manhattan.

During the 19th and early 20th century, as a general sense of prohibitionism arose, many Christians, particularly some Protestants in the United States, came to believe that the Bible prohibited alcohol or that the wisest choice in modern circumstances was for the Christian to abstain from alcohol willingly.

In addition to lexical and historical differences, moderationism holds that prohibitionism errs by confusing the Christian virtues of temperance and moderation with abstinence and prohibition and by locating the evil in the object that is abused rather in the heart and deeds of the abuser.

Some people have argued this is because the majority of the targets of prohibitionism are in the category of victimless crime, where they claim the harm that comes from the crime is non-existent, questionable, or only to the person who performs the act and even then the magnitude of the harm being relatively small.