The convention that allows both agencies to operate forbids Inderlanders from being on the F.I.B. payroll, although consulting jobs mostly are allowed.

Also, social conventions forbade well-born women from being seen in public; while the plays depicted outside activities.

The conventions forbid exposing captives to "public curiosity," as by releasing humiliating photographs.

All of them suffered under the affliction of fear, and yet the rigid conventions under which they lived and flew and died forbade them to speak of it, forbade them to refer to it in even the most oblique terms.

The convention forbids governments to expose captives to "public curiosity."

The passage of US warships through the Straits also raised controversy, as the convention forbids the transit of non-Black Sea nations' warships with guns of a calibre larger than eight inches (203 mm).

"The current convention forbids us from using chemical agents to chase people off the battlefield," she noted dryly.

It's possible the literary conventions of the time forbade it.

However, the conventions of biological nomenclature forbid the use of these diacritics, and in practice they are not found in astronomical names or in literature.

There are some bottles that convention - the Geneva Convention in the case of Blue Nun, that continuation of the Second World War by other means - forbids you to present to a host.