Sentence examples for ban direct from inspiring English sources

Very few people, least of all this newspaper, want to ban direct democracy.

(Federal law continues to ban direct contributions to candidates or political parties from corporations and unions).

The academy's campaign rules ban direct promotional communications with members, and explicitly ban any attempt to cast "a negative or derogatory light on a competing film or achievement".

Now it is up to the legislatures in New York and each of the other 23 states that ban direct wine shipments from out-of-state producers to decide whether to permit direct sales of all wines.

Twitter's terms of service explicitly ban "direct, specific threats of violence against others", and the company has followed YouTube in proactively shutting down Isis-related Twitter accounts, with the aid of the UK's counter-terrorism internet referral unit.

The new rules say that companies must abide by laws that effectively ban direct foreign investment in the industry and state that Internet companies will be held responsible for content carried on their Web sites.

If we want to reduce costs, we must ban direct-to-consumer advertising, as the European Union has.

Re "Drug Pitchmen: Actor, Doctor or Pfizer's Opinion" (Essay, March 4): While I am sympathetic to the desire to ban direct-to-consumer advertisements, I doubt such a ban is constitutionally possible.

It posed a problem for the government because a ban directed specifically at Muslims raised all sorts of constitutional issues — the Establishment Clause, for example.

1. Ban direct-to-consumer marketing and advertising by big pharma.

America needs to ban direct-to-consumer advertising, massively raise fines for misleading marketing, and give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the funding and responsibility for most human clinical trials, rather than drug companies.