nix, prohibit, proscribe, disallow, forbid, interdict, veto - command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"
ban, censor - forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
Recently, Dr Shireen Mazari and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari have also publicly stated they will table bills to criminalise torture, but it has yet to transpire.
Mr Ruto claimed that people against the dams were being used to "criminalise" the projects to paint President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party government in bad light.The DP further accused Jubilee's opponents of criminalising government projects without facts and weaving a narrative that criminalises the ruling party's achievements "using falsehoods and propaganda".
The current law does not criminalise acts of terror incitement, which provides a loophole for perpetrators to escape under the pretext of "freedom of expression".
The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) has urged the government to review the existing laws so as not to criminalise those who attempt suicide.
'We reject in the strongest terms this proposal, which will serve only to criminalise more children and will do nothing to address the underlying reasons that children become involved in crime,' CRIN said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
'The Guild condemns the bill in its entirety and will never nominate any of its members to serve in a council that seeks to cage the media, destroy the profession and criminalise journalists.
"And it blows apart the claims made by Assembly Members that introducing a ban in Wales will not criminalise parents, as almost identical claims made in New Zealand have been shown to be untrue."
Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE criminalise bribery in their penal codes, but only the UAE's law criminalises the receipt of a bribe within the private sector.
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