Sentence examples for banned development from inspiring English sources

As a consequence of the destruction on the Don and other rivers, the provincial government of Ontario banned development on river floodplains.

In 1950, John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated the land in question to the Borough of Alpine with instructions to ban development so the Palisades would stay "forever green".

Those wilderness designations, which ban development, were trumpeted by local lawmakers and welcomed even by those who worried about land sales.

What does not seem to be getting consideration, at least for now, is banning development altogether in the city's flood zones, humble or affluent.

In late May, the Bureau of Land Management (B.L.M ., a "multi-use" agency that manages two hundred and forty-five million acres of federal land, including forty-five per cent of sage-grouse habitat, announced a plan to ban development on about ten per cent of the B.L.M. property that contains sizable oil and gas reserves, in order to protect nearby leks and nesting grounds.

Such efforts go back a long way—hundreds of years, if you include monarchs' reservation of hunting areas such as Bialowiesa Forest in Poland, where King Sigismund I imposed the death penalty for bison poaching in 1538.Limiting or banning development in areas of great beauty or biological value is a newer idea.

The treaty mandated controlled increases, not decreases, in the Soviet arsenal, while failing to ban development of cruise missiles, space-based weapons, or the MIRVing of existing launchers by the United States or the U.S.S.R. Thus the superpowers sacrificed the right to defend their attack missiles with ABMs while failing to ensure the stability of mutual deterrence.

Article 1 bans development, production, or stockpiling of all biological agents or toxins that have no justification for prophylactic, protective, and other peaceful purposes and weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes (13, 14).

While the measure would have actually increased the amount of new office space that could be built in the city, it would have banned such development from the Mission and other largely residential neighborhoods.

Tucker describes how the Soviet Union -- despite having signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which banned the development, production and stockpiling of germ weapons -- manufactured 20 metric tons of military-grade smallpox, salting it away at an army facility 45 miles northeast of Moscow.

As logging on the Isthmus was banned, the development of the forest mosaic followed patterns of natural succession.