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His team talk with particular pride about getting immigration and NHS waiting lists in England down, lifting children out of poverty and introducing a social media ban for teenage children.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The Los Angeles City Council is pushing to ban the bikes on city hiking and equestrian trails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Proponents of the ban say it is popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Moraes said Saturday that Milei's request was moot due to the overall ban.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
He became the first person to be released as a result of the Supreme Court's ban on death-in-prison sentences for juvenile lifers.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
By then—that would have been 1995—the Shorawi were defeated and long gone and Kabul belonged to Massoud, Rab- bani, and the Mujahedin.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Our present copy is a tablet from the library of a later king, seemingly Ashur bani apal.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
The king sent the bani of Bosnia and Croatia to help them, but the Venetian senate bought the rescuers off!
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
For the period after the reign of Ashur bani apal, we have only the scantiest data.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
He was of the Dārim, one of the most respected divisions of the bani Tamīm, and his mother was of the tribe of Ḍabba.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Their use on public trails across the state has prompted calls for similar bans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Hosepipe bans have been introduced in parts of south-east England as successive heatwaves have left water supplies under strain in parts of the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
For instance, Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent spent 29 pages arguing that these categorical sports bans are likely unconstitutional.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Canada and the UAE are among other countries that have announced similar bans, while Indonesia began enforcing its ban for users under 16 in March.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
I was almost certain that the police would not be aware of this, as they rarely kept track of when bans ended.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Faced with the crisis, Moscow first banned exports of certain grades of petrol and aviation fuel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
American Airlines, Delta and Southwest have all banned power banks from overhead lockers and restricted their use in-flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
They will also be banned from asking candidates about their salary history - something that does not feature in the Cabinet Office consultation.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
DDT is a pesticide so dangerous to the environment that it was banned worldwide more than 50 years ago, with rare exceptions; its effects are still traceable in the environment today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Did he know that even though he’d banned magic, the Wyrdmarks still commanded a power of their own?
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the White House was unaware of his bets and pointed to ethics guidelines banning employees from making them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Last month, the brand said it would no longer sell cars in America because of a rule banning Chinese connected-vehicle software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Germany, where Chancellor Friedrich Merz supports restricting or even banning social media for children, an expert commission has proposed two options: a ban graded by age or platform-specific restrictions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
The business, based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, was known by many pubgoers for its eccentric rules including banning mobile phones, music, televisions and swearing at their sites.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
And schools across the country were banning trench coats, backpacks, black clothing, white makeup, Goth music, computer gaming shirts and symbols.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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