Verb (used with object), : to debar all those who are not members. ,to debar an action.    From Dictionary.com. 

One EPA official a few years back threatened to "debar" BP from government contracts if it didn't submit to tougher regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite : Think BP's The Bad Guy? Think Bigger, Way Bigger] Reference

"debar" BP from all government contracts and terminate the six Pentagon agreements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg] Reference

British hands from protecting her who shall debar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892] Reference

I would not for a moment debar you from social pleasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

Was I aware of any such defect as would debar me from service?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

States, would debar the African from applying to them for redress.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

Megarians and Boeotians, that to them my markets are open; but I debar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

"That would debar me from a visit to my old home, relatives and friends.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bond and Free: A Tale of the South] Reference

The attorney general and his colleagues should move to debar Halliburton and KBR.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlie Cray: Fines are Peanuts: Time to Debar Halliburton and KBR too] Reference

Their present patent laws are so framed as practically to debar all persons except.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference

"I told them if they didn't give me what I want, I would debar them," Pascal told NEWSWEEK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slick Operator] Reference

If they do not, we will go after them and we will urge the World Bank and others to debar them.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

It may not be to debar him of a Latin realm; well; and Lavinia is destined his bride unalterably.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

That corrupt little crook had good reason to debar the phone tapping of MPs, particularly HIS phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

She will look very sharply after him, but will not altogether debar him from his accustomed pleasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference

It does not debar one from the most beautiful things in the world, but adds dignity and worth to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

Objection 1: It would seem unfitting for the law to debar certain persons from the office of advocate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

She might not be going away to school, but even so, that did not debar one from new fall clothes at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The S. W. F. Club] Reference

The Bridegroom is waiting for thee all the time; the conditions that debar His approach are all of thine own making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union and Communion] Reference

He need not, for what had taken place between them, debar himself entirely of the delight of her society, he might --?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

But my connection -- a perjured wife -- would debar you from the companionship of all that is noble and good and beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Springs and Hippo-Zarytus, and so debar the Suffet from approaching the Tyrian towns, and from the possibility of a return to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

At that he laughed, said he was also married, with a wife in the States, but that does not debar him from having a good time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

Anything in a man or woman that indicates low moral tone, or want of principle, should debar them at once from our friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Conduct] Reference

Now as in soul unity does not debar variety, so with Being and the Beings; in that order multiplicity does not conflict with unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Indeed, there was not a little jealousy lest other Colonists might debar those at the Cape from proving their devotion to the full.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

If music is to be regarded as one of the feminine accomplishments, why should this debar the more earnest students from doing more earnest work?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Brooks said the worst the trade association could do was debar errant private companies, adding: "We can't shoot them, that's the job of states.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Octavie felt a little hurt; as if he wished to debar her from share and parcel in the burden of affliction which had been placed upon all of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening] Reference

Dr. Abdullah expressed satisfaction on the immediate action of BCCI to debar the services team from playing the remaining matches of Ranji trophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Union Minister regrets non participation of Services team���s decision] Reference

Imperfect technique, indeed, is to be deprecated, if merely for the reason that it may debar a singer from interpreting accurately the composer's ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Singing] Reference

Further to secure the same object, every effort, both legislative and private, was made to debar them from schools, and sink them in the lowest ignorance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Apparently, this should debar me from saying that Rowan Williams should step down as Archbishop of Canterbury or saying who I think should be his successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Do not let your feelings debar you from going to his house this very evening; he will fully understand the step you take; forget for a moment that you are a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ursula] Reference