Word: outlawed
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...women wearing head scarves at university. Erdogan easily returned to power in a snap election he called in July 2007 in response to a possible coup threat by the army. This July, the AKP won a court case brought by the nation's chief prosecutor, who sought to outlaw the party on the grounds that it was antisecular. But these political struggles have been an awkward distraction at a critical time, and may have scared off potential foreign investors. In a report this month, Wolfango Piccoli, a Turkey expert at consultants Eurasia Group, wrote: "Despite its large parliamentary majority...
...split into two ideological factions: those that wanted to continue a campaign of violence, and those - including Ayers - who urged members to "resurface" and participate in society. The deep divisions could not be repaired and the group disbanded by the end of the year. Some members continued their outlaw lifestyle, but most people drifted slowly back into the mainstream...
...Clarion, for example, more than 500 students and faculty have signed petitions in support of the ban. That's great news for anti-smoking coalitions around the country who have been pressing colleges and universities to get stricter on tobacco. Although PASSHE is the first full school system to outlaw smoking, the American Lung Association estimates that about 130 schools now have campuswide bans, while several others have prohibited selling cigarettes on campus or have designated smoking areas away from school buildings...
...throughout the campaign, he has impressed pro-life religious leaders with his argument that measures to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to support women who want to carry their babies to term could actually lower abortion rates more substantially than purist approaches that seek to overturn Roe v. Wade and outlaw abortion...
...Arguments like that have unexpectedly cast Mosley as the poster boy for the U.K.'s BDSM (bondage, domination, submission and sadomasochism) community. Deborah Hyde, director of Backlash, a group campaigning against legislation that would outlaw BDSM-themed pornography in England and Wales next January, says Mosley has helped BDSM practitioners realize they have a community and that they shouldn't remain silent when others deem their practices sick and unusual. "Max Mosley has stood up for himself," she told TIME. "And that's inspired other people in the community to talk out loud about their experiences...