Russia actually did block imports of Monsanto corn.

These restrictions may vary by location.

In 1977, Canada banned saccharin due to the animal research.

Idiots. A couple of years ago, Broward County, Florida, banned running at recess.

As a result, the government then banned domestic league matches for two years.

It should also be made clear that if a treaty prohibited reservations to specific provisions or certain types of reservations, only those reservations were expressly prohibited.

As Thailand authorities ban public reading of vote no documents, activists post photo from toilet.

Furthermore, the Government of Kazakhstan has banned the export and transit of landmines.

Russia s government has banned wheat exports, sending world grain prices soaring.

In 2010, it banned the wearing of face covering Islamic veils in public.

India banned the practice of abortion for reasons of fetal sex in 1994.

So it seems that democracies are damned if they ban and damned if they do not ban.

The Treaty of Versailles included some provisions that banned Germany from either manufacturing or importing chemical weapons.

On May 4, Russia s federal censor blocked WeChat, China s largest mobile messaging app.

In 1981, Kenya banned the export of the pancake tortoise unless given written permission by the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources.

Many countries prohibit the sale of unsafe tools, such as power saws without safety guards.

The Taliban soon banned all forms of imagery, music and sports, including television, in accordance with what they considered a strict interpretation of Sharia.

The Korean language was banned, Koreans were forced to adopt Japanese names, and newspapers were prohibited from publishing in Korean.

In the Russian Federation, capital punishment was in effect banned by a ruling of the Constitutional Court in February 1999.

In 2004, Taiwanese health authorities banned the procedure on people under 20 years of age.

The provisions of the London Naval Treaty of 1930, however, restricted naval construction, resulting in a serious decline in the British shipbuilding industry.

Similar treaties banned the First Austrian Republic, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the Kingdom of Hungary from chemical weapons, all belonging to the losing side, the Central powers.

New York City has banned trans fats from restaurants and is now limiting the permitted serving size of sugary drinks.

That document also banned all physical and psychological violence, mutilation, early or forced marriage and sexual harassment.

In any case, in many countries that have restrictions or bans on circuses with animals, human only circuses have flourished.

He also studied qualitative analysis, and conducted chemical experiments on the train until an accident prohibited further work of the kind.

The Antarctic Treaty ensured that the region would only be used for peaceful purposes, and, most importantly, placed a prohibition on any activity of a military nature.

This was especially strange, given that Australia has been one of the big beneficiaries of the Montreal convention, which banned ozone destroying gases.

The Lebanese government allowed two rival protests regarding refugees and the army to take place, and then banned all protests after an impression was given that the protesters were going to clash.

Five shipments had been allowed through prior to the 2008 09 Gaza War, but all shipments following the war were blocked by Israel.

As a result, Israel's Supreme Court outlawed the party and did not allow it to run again in the 1988 elections on the basis that the party advocates racism.

Last week Tajikistan moved to ban the Islamic hijab covering from schools completely while mobile service providers mobbed citizens with SMS messages stressing the need to wear non religious national clothes.

For example, the United States recently banned 18 Russian officials, most of whom were allegedly linked to Magnitsky s death, from traveling to the US and froze all assets that they hold there.

It had banned the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories, mines and other hazardous environments, and had regulated the working conditions of children in permitted occupations.

After World War II, France banned Coca Cola for a time, and, more recently, the farmer José Bové became a folk hero by destroying a McDonald s restaurant.

Before the start of the campaign on 12 February 2010, IHEC confirmed that most of the appeals by banned candidates had been rejected and 456 of the initially banned candidates would not be allowed to run for the election.

The current administration cannot afford to walk into the trap set by Cheney, and be held responsible for another possible terrorist attack just because it abolished torture.

In January 2010, export of the device was banned by the British government and the managing director of ATSC was arrested on suspicion of fraud, and in June 2010, several other companies were raided by British police.

Since the General Assembly has ruled out cross borrowing from active peacekeeping operations and restricted the use of the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund, however, not all of those resources could be used for temporary cross borrowing.

In the past, the NFCG has issued bans on games such as 1979 Revolution a game depicting struggles of resistors of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, as well as Battlefield 3 a game that involved a US military invasion of Tehran.

Last spring, after the Philippines banned the sale of kidneys to foreigners, a headline in the Jerusalem Post read, Kidney Transplant Candidates in Limbo after Philippines Closes Gates.

In April, following weeks of organized strikes by truckers against a federal road tax, Roskomnadzor blocked Zello, a push to talk app popular among protest organizers.

After this year, human occupation of Giresun Island appears to have ended on orders of the Ottoman Empire who prohibited foreign trade, thus reducing the commercial sea traffic that had made the island relevant to commerce and naval defense.

After Alabama banned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1956, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth formed the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) the same year to challenge the city's segregation policies through lawsuits and protests.

Winning 49.9 of the vote, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (reinstituted in 1993 after being outlawed in 1991), gained 71 of the 101 MPs, and on April 4, 2001, elected Vladimir Voronin as the country's third president (re elected in 2005).