Word: banning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would call timid. A dark horse with little experience in domestic or international politics, the former collective-farm boss launched his bid for the presidency of Belarus by pledging that his first official act, if elected, would be to throw the Prime Minister in jail. Then he promised to ban private property, purge the government and squelch free enterprise. Finally, in a televised debate, he named Felix Dzerzhinsky, the ghoulish founder of the Soviet secret police, one of his most admired heroes...
BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Lingering doubts about the fairness of the U.N.-sponsored -- and U.S.-supported -- arms embargo in the Balkan war prompted the fourth Senate proposal since May to lift the ban on shipments of weapons to the beleaguered Bosnians. Fifty Senators voted for the measure, but the other 50 opposed it, which, in the case of an amendment to a bill, counts as a defeat of the measure. A similar bill passed in the House, 244 to 178, on June...
Triantafillou added that a ban on rent controlwould devastate the city...
...ban goes through, "there will be a lotof displacement of low income people,"Triantafillou said. "I truly believe there will bea lot of hardship...
Weld's decision effectively overturns a recent MDC decision upholding the long-standing ban on trucks on Mem Drive, A position MDC Commissioner M. Ilyas Bhatti publicly supported...