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2007 Blue Angels South Carolina crash

San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly brought a resolution up to San Francisco's board of supervisors in an effort to ban the Angels' performance.

2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation

Even though flatulence was not the target of the bill, when responding to a journalist who inquired about the ban on flatulence in January 2011 on Capital Radio Malawi's popular Straight Talk program, George Chaponda, Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, agreed that the legislation can essentially be interpreted as a banning farting in public places and makes it an official criminal offence.

2011 Taiwan food scandal

Hong Kong's health secretary York Chow stated that because the ingestion of the carcinogen will be a health risk, he supports an outright ban of the DEHP agent.

8905 Bankakuko

It is named after Kakuko Ban, a member of the staff at the planetarium section of the Hiroshima Children's Museum.

Aérospatiale Alouette III

On 2 December 2010, the last example was retired at a ceremony held at BAN Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca.

Alin Artimon

The resignation came just two days after a historic draw against Dinamo Bucharest, when Poli used the second team, in protest against a two-match ban of Artavazd Karamyan.

André-Joseph Léonard

Leonard took over from Cardinal Godfried Danneels who opposed key Vatican edicts such as a ban on condoms in AIDS prevention.

Andrzej Romocki

On 15 September 1944, units of the LWP made their first attempt to cross the river and link up with the insurgents in Czerniaków, in spite of Joseph Stalin's ban.

Battle of Krbava Field

In one single day, around 7,000 Croatian soldiers lost their lives, including many of Croatian feudal nobleman of the time (princes/dukes Ivan Frankopan Cetinski, Petar II Zrinski and Karlo Gusić Krbavski, then Juraj Vlatković, ban of Jajce, Ferdinand Berislavić etc.

Cartoons Against Corruption

Many writers, artists, and activists gathered at Rajghat, New Delhi to protest against the undemocratic ban on the Cartoons Against Corruption.

Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued and published on May 29, 2008, in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, a decree signed by Cardinal William Levada, on the existing ban on women priests by asserting that women "priests" and the bishops who ordain them would be automatically excommunicated "latae sententiae".

Catholicon Anglicum

However on a recommendation made by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), administered by Arts Council England, an export ban has been placed on the book by culture minister Ed Vaizey.

Cathy Jamieson

One of the more high profile campaigns launched by Jamieson was a campaign to ban Buckfast, a tonic wine popular with some underage drinkers in parts of Scotland.

Chaiyo District

The name of Ban Chaiyo dates back to when King Naresuan the Great and his brother, who later became King Ekathotsarot, defeated the King of Lan Na and Burmese soldiers in this area.

Consenting Adult Action Network

Clauses in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 that ban people from working in jobs involving children or "vulnerable adults" if they possess "sexually explicit images depicting violence against human beings".

Defense of marriage amendment

Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex unions in the United States

DITTO

The company carries brands such as Ray-Ban, Persol, Chloé, TAG Heuer, and Vera Wang, as well as niche fashion and boutique brands like Jason Wu, Selima Optique, Alain Mikli, Anglo American, and John Varvatos.

Gun politics in Brazil

The belief of a fundamental natural human right to self-defense, low efficacy of police, high levels of use of illegal weapons in crimes in contrast to a very rare usage of legal weapons, and advocacy by Non Governmental Organizations (N.G.O.) such as the NRA are some of the factors that may have influenced 65% of Brazilian people to decide against the ban.

György Dalos

In 1968, Dalos was accused of "Maoist activities" and was handed seven months prison on probation and a Berufsverbot (professional disqualification) and a publication ban; due to that, he worked as a translator.

History of Kaohsiung

During this time, Lin was told by a feng shui master named Wu Ban-hsien (吳半仙) that if he were to bury his deceased father in a "dragon cave" near modern day Jiali, leave an offering of an arrow upon the altar

Imperial ban

The imperial ban imposed by the Emperor Rudolf II on the city of Donauwörth after an anti-Catholic riot was one of the incidents leading to the Thirty Years' War.

Ivailo Gabrovski

On July 18, 2012 it was announced that Gabrovski had tested positive for EPO at that year's Presidential Tour of Turkey and that he could face a ban and the loss of his title.

J. Hemachandran

Amongst other things, J. Hemachandran campaigned for a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi sales in Tamil Nadu and coordinated relief work in the state after the 2004 tsunami.

Jamie Stuart

In 1997, Stuart was sacked by Charlton and served a six-month ban from football for failing a doping test.

Japan Patent Office

In fact, Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, decreed in 1721 the "Ban on Novelty" (新規御法度 shinki gohatto), which was intended to prohibit everything novel, especially clothing of rich design.

Joseph Davison

When Prime Minister of Northern Ireland James Craig attempted to ban all marches from 18 June, Davison led the objections, and the ban was lifted within days.

Kaffir Boy

Kaffir Boy has been banned in a number of schools, including Cedar Crest High School, where the ban made headlines.

Langit Makin Mendung

Poet Taufiq Ismail notes that most protests against the prosecution's actions were for their motion to ban Sastra, a reputable and respected publication, which does not indicate that "Langit Makin Mendung" was being supported.

Lucy Webb Hayes

As First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served.

Mahjong school

After World War II the government has required such venues to obtain Mahjong/Tin Kau Licences with the constraint that such businesses must be known, in Legal English, as Mahjong Schools - a white lie to get around the ban on privately run gambling businesses.

Mang language

In Lai Châu Province, Vietnam, Mang is spoken by 2,200 people in the districts of Sìn Hồ, Mường Tè, Phong Thổ, and in other nearby areas (Gao 2003:1), including in Nặm Ban Township, Sìn Hồ District, Lai Châu Province.

Morris Pashman

In a 1964 decision, Pashman upheld Bergen County prosecutor Guy W. Calissi's decision to ban the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey, calling the book "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution."

National Iranian Tanker Company

In 2009, in a move aimed at further enhancing Iran's shipbuilding industry, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he will ban the purchase of foreign ships by Iranian organizations.

National Pyrotechnic Festival

In 1988, a major fire at the La Merced Market in Mexico City, prompted city authorities to ban the manufacture and wholesale of fireworks in the city limits.

Operation Save America

At South Rowan High School, near Charlotte, North Carolina, when a Gay-Straight Alliance was forming at that school, Operation Save America arranged to have some 700 people to show up at the school board meeting and get the board to ban the club from the school.

Peter Vallone, Jr.

In April 2009 Vallone supported a proposed ban on pit bulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers, and other dogs weighing more than 25 lbs.

Phraya Phichai

The Thai people loved chewing betel nut, which made their teeth black, since the ancient time until the Government under the premiership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram issued ban on chewing the nut in 1942.

Ray Klebesadel

Ray Klebesadel is a scientist, now retired, who was a member of the gamma-ray astronomy group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico that discovered cosmic gamma-ray bursts using data from the Vela satellites, which were deployed by the United States after the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, to police the ban on nuclear tests in space.

Rocco Buttiglione

He later told the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute that he had been misquoted and clarified that he meant it was unlikely that Italy would ban abortion given its political situation.

Séamus McElwaine

Victims groups and Unionist politicians including Democratic Unionist Party member Arlene Foster had asked the Parades Commission to ban the parade from the area where McElwaine was killed describing him as an "evil murderer", but the Commission ruled the commemoration could proceed without any restriction.

Smoking bans in private vehicles

The Senator and Oncologist John Crown has put bill before parliament to ban smoking in a car with children.

Sondra Bianca

Due to its ban in Nazi Germany it was unpopular in that country for many years.

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

This was also a retribution for Mellouli, who served an 18-month doping ban from FINA for using the banned stimulant Adderall.

Tamoyot

Tamoyot or Ban Tamoyot is a village in Sanamxay District in Attapeu Province, in southern Laos.

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

The former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses.

Time Warner Cable Internet

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Eric Massa, both of whom represent portions of the Rochester, New York market that would be affected by the changes, announced their opposition to the plan and even went as far as to threaten legislation to ban such a scheme.

Wat Aranyawiwake

Wat Aranyawiwake (Thai script: วัดอรัญญวิเวก, RTGS: Wat Aranyawiwek), also known as Wat Ban Pong (Thai script: วัดบ้านปง) is a monastery ("Wat") in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism located in Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand.

Wihan Daeng District

The word Wihan Daeng comes from the Buddhism Red Wihara of Lawa people in Ban Lam area, which was built by red bricks.

William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood

Amid allegations of back-stabbing in the boardroom, when Lord Westwood, claimed himself and the then just sacked manager Richard Dinnis were being knifed in the back, he ordered a complete ban of every Newcastle United employee, especially the players, from talking to the press.


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