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The word "banning" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as a noun or verb to describe an official prohibition, or the action of prohibiting something. For example: "The government has proposed banning cars from the inner city to reduce air pollution."
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The proposal does not go as far as banning EU migrants access to income-related benefits entirely for the first year in the UK, as had previously been suggested.
In 1992, Thailand passed two laws to curb tobacco use: the Tobacco Product Control Act – banning tobacco advertisement and sales to minors – and the Non-Smoker Health Protection Act – prohibiting smoking in public places.
The social media company is also banning indirect threats of violence, and will introduce temporary suspensions for accounts that fall foul of its policies.
Banning gay people from using the word "marriage" suggests they are less worthy.
The home secretary last hinted at her wish to see the introduction of pre-broadcast banning powers in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich two years ago, when Conservative MPs expressed strong criticism of a BBC Newsnight interview with the radical Islamist activist Anjem Choudary.
The reason so many new drugs are appearing is precisely because we keep banning them.
Across the country protesters burned French flags and demanded an international law banning blasphemy against Islam.
Banning an event, a speaker or a song – all cited as reasons for being graded "red" – is usually considered an act of censorship.
Most controversial is the banning of pesticides because of their environmental harm, often contested.
The BBC is revising its own rules banning the representation of the prophet Muhammad "in any shape or form", it has emerged after a Charlie Hebdo cover featured on BBC1's flagship 10pm news on Thursday.
The banning of the bedroom tax is possibly the key element of Labour's "nicer-than-the-Tories" offer, and as such has been very widely discussed.
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