Sentence examples for banning construction from inspiring English sources

In 2000 the government passed a law banning construction for 15 years on property where there had been a blaze.

His seaside villa outside Athens was spared, but the conflagration prompted the Greek prime minister to promise stricter measures to stop developers from building on land cleared by fires; satellite photos, for example, would be taken at regular intervals to help enforce Greece's law banning construction in forest areas.Mr Karamanlis failed to deliver.

USC earth sciences professor James Dolan -- whose maps and studies in the 1990s are the leading source for state officials on the location of the Hollywood fault -- said lawmakers had good reason for banning construction on faults.

Military restrictions ban construction.

County supervisors threatened to redraw zoning for the land in a way that would have banned construction.

Israel controls the cargo crossings into Gaza and has banned construction materials like concrete and steel from going in for fear that Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza, would incorporate them into weapons and bunkers.

Last year, for example, the mayor banned construction in the affluent northern neighborhood of Tehran, but not until after some of those so-called mafia builders had been granted extensive construction permits for the area.

Noonan also noted the government had not adopted royal commissioner Dyson Heydon's "more bizarre recommendations" including that parliament should be able to ban construction officials and said it showed how "extreme and ideological" the royal commission was.

The future of Pakistan's first modern metro system is in doubt after a court banned construction of train tracks and stations near heritage sites in Lahore, a historic city that boasts an array of important Mughal-era buildings.

None of those events persuaded New Yorkers that they might want to ban construction cranes, or stay off the Staten Island Ferry, or not go anywhere near Grand Central, or demand that manhole covers be made, say, of heavy-duty plastic rather than metal.

Their fate has been one of the few emotive issues in the campaign for federal election on September 27th.In 2000 a previous coalition of the Social Democratic Party SPDD) and Greens decided to ban construction of new nuclear power plants and gradually to phase out existing ones by 2022.