Word: bans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Children's Crusade ROMANIA Parliament approved a bill severely restricting international adoption following pressure from the E.U. - which Romania hopes to join in 2007 - to crack down on child trafficking. The U.S. embassy in Bucharest suggested many children could end up living in institutions as a result of the ban...
...nine-nation mission to restore order to Solomon Islands, he says, is a model of what close cooperation can achieve. Australia and New Zealand are also helping small states update antiquated laws. Police had to wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill - increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life - was not ready to put to Parliament until the day of the raid...
...These setbacks have helped solidify Beijing's commitment to preserving the animals in the wild. A commercial-logging ban in 1998 allowed the WWF and provincial governments to establish numerous wildlife reserves?there are now more than 40, compared with 13 when the last panda survey was taken in the late '80s?along with bamboo-forested corridors linking them. These corridors are crucial, explains Li, because they connect the fragmented panda habitats and, in theory, allow the animals to find mates more easily...
...particular delivery known as the "doosra." It is Muralitharan's secret weapon, a slight-of-hand delivery only he can bowl. The International Cricket Council (ICC), after a series of biomechanic tests, ruled the delivery "illegal" and told Muralitharan to shelve it or face a 12-month ban from the game. Though he insists his action is legal and will be vindicated, Muralitharan has not bowled the doosra in a match since the verdict. Rajapakse has threatened to take the ICC to court, claiming that it is the Sri Lankan government's duty "to protect one of our national treasures...
...person who is not a social conservative, don’t feel at home in this club if we’re going to be going out there and expressing our support for the [constitutional ban on same-sex marriage], for policies where the government attempts to impose moral order on the public,” he says. “I don’t think the club has to be an organization that takes stances on issues that are divisive among Republicans at Harvard. I don’t think that’s particularly productive...