Sentence examples for adopt a ban from inspiring English sources

"This measure doesn't force towns to adopt a ban on smoking," Mr. Blumenthal said.

Forty-one other states have considered the issue in the last three years, but New York is the first to adopt a ban.

Closer to home, Senator Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat of New Jersey, has introduced a measure that would require states to adopt a ban on hand-held phones or face losing federal transportation funds.

But your comments since then have been sparse and succinct: no more than a written statement in favor of the 2011 bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, your home since you left the White House, and a recorded phone message urging North Carolinians last spring not to adopt a ban on same-sex marriage in their state Constitution, which they did anyway.

At a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the European Union's 15 agriculture ministers will be asked to adopt a ban on the use of meat and bone meal in all farm animal feed, to back the introduction of a plan to remove all untested beef cattle from the food chain, and to extend the banned category of high-risk parts of the cow to include all the intestine.

UNION SEEKS BAN ON HITS TO HEAD Paul Kelly, the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Associationn, urged the league's general managers to adopt a ban against intentional hits to the head during the first day of their three-day meeting in Naples, Fla. Kelly proposed a rule that would give referees the ability to punish players who deliberately target the heads of opponents.

New York City has adopted a ban that starts March 30.

One New York county -- Suffolk -- adopted a ban on Tuesday.

A recent minority government that was supported by the PVV adopted a ban on burkas, a ban on double citizenship and other anti-immigrant policies.

Some cities have decided that limiting decibel levels makes more sense than adopting a ban, said Larry Will, a spokesman for Echo, a blower manufacturer, in an e-mail.

He also noted that in 1987, Britain adopted a ban on providing information about homosexuality to children nearly identical to the Russian law.