On two separate occasions, Khalid and his mother, Haifa, secured restraining orders prohibiting Majors from having any contact with them.
The groups began playing a more prominent role in 2004 after new federal campaign finance laws prohibited major donors, unions and corporations from giving unlimited amounts of money to parties.
The second — less noticed but perhaps more consequential — was a bill advanced in the Knesset to prohibit any major newspaper from being distributed for free.
In the early 1990's, the so-called financial interest and syndication rules, which prohibited the major networks from owning more than a handful of the programs on their schedules, were repealed.
The Legislature has already passed bills that will restructure the agencies that oversee the state's power system and that prohibit the major utilities from selling off generating plants -- measures that are unlikely to bring any short-term relief to the badly overtaxed system.
Ten advertising signs on the authority's property in Queens and in the Bronx violate an ordinance prohibiting signs along major roadways, the city's Board of Standards and Appeals said in a decision filed on Thursday.
Regulators plan to limit banks from investing in hedge funds while also prohibiting proprietary trading, a major profit center where banks trade with their own money rather than for clients.
MOSCOW — Russia interprets the latest round of United Nations sanctions against Iran as prohibiting all exports of major weapons systems to that country, President Dmitri A. Medvedev announced Wednesday, ending some Russian equivocation on whether an advanced air defense system would fall under the ban.
While high-resolution remote sensing has proven promising for carbon mapping in highly fragmented urban landscapes, data cost and availability are the major obstacle prohibiting accurate, consistent, and repeated measurement of forest carbon pools in cities.
Major League Baseball prohibits teams from making major announcements during the World Series, but Friday is a scheduled day off between Games 2 and 3 and the league would probably allow the Mets to introduce the new G.M. then.
