In addition to anti-skateboard devices, with names such as "pig's ears" and "skate stoppers", ground-level window ledges are increasingly studded to prevent sitting, slanting seats at bus stops deter loitering and public benches are divided up with armrests to prevent lying down.
Excluding criteria are severe internistic or neurological diseases, inflammation, skin ulcerations, or wounds in the ear, pronounced tendency to collapse, and psychiatric (co morbidity such as schizophrenia or (psychomotoric) restlessness that prevents sitting still for 45 minutes.
Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito and Breyer were prevented from sitting because of their stock holdings.
But the proportion who pass has fluctuated wildly over the years, and often depends on how many of the weaker pupils are prevented from sitting the exam.
When officials from M.L.S. held talks with Queens residents this winter to promote their plan, some opponents were prevented from sitting in the main auditorium, which was filled with soccer boosters.
Sats have been repeatedly condemned by teachers, and in May this year, 300,000 pupils were prevented from sitting them by teachers who claimed they narrowed the curriculum, forcing schools to drill children with preparations to ensure they hit their targets.
Before the performance of David Zambrano's "Soul Project," presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, in the East Village, through April 21st, the audience was ushered into the sanctuary but prevented from sitting on the carpeted risers that ring the floor.
Along with other critics of the court he was prevented from sitting in the Parliament of 1626, and later in the year he refused to subscribe to the forced loan imposed to pay for the war, and was for some time under arrest.
This led to a British officer being stationed at the Wall making sure that Jews were prevented from sitting.
In November 1960, Lord Stansgate died and Benn automatically became a peer and was thus prevented from sitting in the House of Commons.
