Disabling hyphenation on selected strings

I'd like to be able to mark arbitrary subsections of para elements as
"non-hyphenatable", something like this:

<para>Hyphenate anywhere here <span type="no-hyphens">Do not hyphenate
this text</span> Hyphenate anywhere here</para>

Is this possible?

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