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Last month, the government rolled out austerity measures to conserve fuel, including a ban on official foreign travel, and mandated early market closures, as well as a new fuel subsidy for low-income groups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Questions have been raised over the process which led to Balogun having his ban suspended.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Netherlands hopes to insulate the court by activating the European Union’s “blocking statute,” a rule that would ban EU companies from complying with the sanctions and thereby expose them to U.S. secondary sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Circuses using wild animals have fallen out of favour across much of Europe due to concerns over animal cruelty, and France plans to ban them outright from December 2028.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I believe there should be a total ban on housing children under the age of eighteen with adults in jails or prisons.

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

For the period after the reign of Ashur bani apal, we have only the scantiest data.

From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead

Our present copy is a tablet from the library of a later king, seemingly Ashur bani apal.

From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead

In the true Bedouin spirit he devoted his talent largely to satire and attacked the bani Nahshal and the bani Fuqaim.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Particularly is this the case with the inscriptions of Sennacherib and Ashur bani apal.

From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead

Both drought and water scarcity can lead to hosepipe bans - officially called "temporary use bans" - if they are not already in place.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said a 2022 law bans Russian energy imports until Russia ends its aggression against Ukraine and stops threatening U.S. allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Year: 2018 Compiled by: Slate Staff Of note: One entry here bans an entire group.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The European Union insists that, yes, its law known as the AI Act is powerful enough since it forces companies to assess and mitigate risks, under threat of massive fines or even bans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Even freedom fighters, at least then, had to obey the laws, and at that point, imprisonment for violating my bans would have been useless to the ANC and to myself.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The Serie A giants' refusal to re-enter the pitch for the final minutes of that one also led to them being banned the following year.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Although Santa Cruz banned puma hunting in 2025, illegal persecution continues.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Upper Great Highway joined the list after crowds flocked to a pandemic-era pilot project that temporarily banned cars on weekends, starting at noon Fridays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Martin Shkreli, a former hedge-fund manager known as “Pharma Bro,” is back in the crosshairs of U.S. regulators for influencing biopharma stocks even though he is banned from being involved with the industry.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

My staff and I discussed how we might use the constitutional reasoning that banned the execution of children as a legal basis for challenging juvenile life-without-parole sentences.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

But banning fraternities from universities often doesn’t fix these problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Since banning them has thus far proven unpopular and ineffective, the question seems to be: Can fraternities be reformed?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Regulations on AI companion bots took effect in July, aiming to curb emotional dependency and banning the creation of digital clones of real people without their consent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Phoebe Bridgers is taking things one step further to make sure fans are surprised at her shows - she's banning phones altogether.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

To violate or ignore a banning order was to invite imprisonment.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela