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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of forbids in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of forbids in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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  1. Preet Bharara:

    To prove a violation of the federal criminal civil rights statute, prosecutors must establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a law enforcement officer willfully deprived an individual of a constitutional right, meaning that the officer acted with the deliberate and specific intent to do something the law forbids.

  2. Sam Donaldson:

    Enemy of the People, history shows that tyrants and would-be tyrants always attempt to destroy a free press. And that is why the First Amendment to our Constitution specifically forbids government from interfering with the work of the press.

  3. Tynan Power:

    There are Muslims who believe that the Koran forbids homosexuality, just as there are Christians who believe the Bible does, there are also Muslims who believe that honoring their God-given capacity to love is a form of worship. Ultimately, no one perspective can define a religion for all other people of that faith.

  4. Samuel Alito:

    Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18.

  5. George Bernard Shaw:

    Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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