Sentence examples for usage bans from inspiring English sources

As Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage points out, usage bans often come in response to surges in a word's popularity, when it may already be too late.

Pocket Lint also suggests the rumors of the electronics usage ban are "unfounded" but that doesn't change the fact that travelers were told of this restriction yesterday.

China has already limited citizens' Internet usage by banning services such as YouTube and Facebook- which teenagers like me absolutely cannot live without.

A decade ago, a lack of collaboration adversely affected its business in South India, when the Indian government and several NGOs protested the company's level of water usage and banned production in the region.

Cell phone usage is banned in this area.

She is concerned that usage of "banned" hashtags could have an effect on someone's account, such as banning.

Even the litmus paper issue of climate change and carbon usage, espoused by Ban Ki Moon as his big issue, is not universally popular in the developing world, where they have reasonable suspicions that it is an attempt by industrialised countries to pull the ladder up after them.

These technologies make more sense to me as solutions to driver distractions rather than an overbroad block on technology usage which could ban an incoming call to a driving mother from a child is in distress.

Meanwhile, any other usage should be banned by App Review, including when emoji are used as elements in a game, as replacements for buttons or other parts of the app's user interface, as sticker packs, in app logos or icons, or in promotional images, also as Emojipedia had suspected, based on the pattern of rejections.

Some residents whom I have talked with signed the petition wanting to get the issue to a vote to ban their usage, not realizing our council had already banned fireworks.

And by how much do hosepipe bans reduce usage?