Sentence examples for banned of from inspiring English sources

Software patents will never be banned, of course.

Recombinant DNA was not banned, of course, thanks in part to lobbying by Professor Berg.

Both attackers had attended events of the extremist group al-Muhajiroun and, after it was banned, of its successor groups.

Most of them are smoking (Athens is a great place to pick up a passive smoking habit. Smoking is banned, of course, but Greeks tend to do what they want), drinking beer or coffee and betting online on their phones.

Voters in the oil-rich emirate are choosing today between groupings (parties are still formally banned) of Islamists, independents, nationalists and liberals, against a background of turbulence that has included the dissolution of parliament and controversial cabinet resignations.

(In reference to the Koran): Ban that wretched book like 'Mein Kampf' is banned!" Of course, there is something rather curious about the leader of a group calling itself the "Freedom Party" when he says he wants to ban the Qur'an, but let's leave that for a moment and go back to the "deliberate provocation" point raised by the Khaleej Times.

One is the banning of abortion.

Is the banning of outlandish names an act of mercy?

A chorus of commentators called for the banning of Jouvert.

I would oppose the banning of any book.

And the banning of books makes me want to weep.