Political activity had been virtually banned in Bangladesh since emergency rule was imposed in January 2007.
"Jewish themes in Polish culture had been virtually banned for 20 years," Wajda explained.
"If this passes, abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas, and many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures".
("If all the Chinese are socialists," the joke went, "who do they steal from?") He was virtually banned from Italy's state broadcaster, RAI.
Mayor La Guardia began a campaign against burlesque in 1934, a wall text helpfully tells us, and it was virtually banned in the city by 1937.
Hamas, which denounces both negotiations and Mr Fayyad's state-building project and has, as a result, been virtually banned from political activity in the West Bank, is also looking for ways of expressing itself.
This sonata is one of the composer's last works, written after Prokofiev had been virtually banned by the Soviet authorities, and some see the piece as reflecting his broken spirit.
Such games had been virtually banned by the principal, Mark S. Johnson, along with kickball, soccer and other "body-banging" activities, as he put it, where knees — and feelings — might get bruised.
Big gains in fuel economy are possible in Europe because most drivers there prefer smaller vehicles and because of the growing use in cars of diesel engines, which will be virtually banned in the United States in 2004 by air pollution rules.
Maybe it is because the corporate banking executives (don't call them investment bankers!) are taking over as the dynamos of growth; maybe it's the built-up pressure of a sector where domestic takeover activity has been virtually banned by government order; or maybe it's just at that stage in the cycle where a new generation of executives are shaking things up for their elders.
