The inquiry is particularly concerned about the use of unsupervised tanning booths, which are banned in Scotland.
Political parties and demonstrations are banned in the UAE, which comprises seven sheikdoms run by ruling families.
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Saudi Arabia currently has no diplomatic ties with Israel, and non-Muslim religious services and symbols are banned in the kingdom.
For example, many commuter trains have adopted the idea of "quiet cars, " in which cell phones are banned in those areas.
Team orders are banned in Formula 1, but debate has raged since Ferrari appeared to tell their drivers to swap positions in Germany last Sunday.
Field trials on cattle TB vaccines are banned in the UK, but scientists have been collaborating with countries where vaccination programmes are ongoing, including the US, Argentina, Ethiopia, Mexico and New Zealand.
The British Horseracing Authority said it found that two steroids, which are banned in the U.K. during training, had been administered by Al Zarooni after flying from Dubai, where the use of the drugs during training aren't totally banned by the Emirates Racing Authority.
Those social media sites are still banned in North Korea, says the official.
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In Beijing, of course, fireworks are really banned, as they are in Hong Kong, but Shanghai seems to have a special dispensation for the New Year.
Then why are contingency fees banned in criminal cases, and with lawyers representing clients on their taxes?
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How is any of this even possible, given that cell phones are banned on planes in the US?
Banks are still banned from dealing in securities, which makes them weaker than they otherwise would be.
Polychlorinated biphenyls, (PCBs), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and DDT are also organochlorine compounds which, although banned or discredited, are still evident in the environment.
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Do you receive messages from them while you know they are driving (increasingly being banned in state after state), or at midnight on Saturday night?
With growth in the soda segment flattening out, in part due to government antiobesity campaigns (soda sales have been banned in schools), the growth and competition are in water, where market leader Danone is fighting it out with Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
In fact, fruit flies are so common in African mangoes that America has banned their import altogether, to protect its own orchards.
There is growing concern over the growth and prevalence of "legal highs", some of which are banned, amid a recorded rise in deaths linked to their use.
Since the end of the war this had hardly happened within Sri Lanka, where the Tigers and their separatist ideology are strictly banned - although Tiger sympathisers in the diaspora call 27 November "Martyrs' Day" and mark it as such.
Our correspondent says since the end of the war this had hardly happened within Sri Lanka, where the Tigers and their separatist ideology are strictly banned - although Tiger sympathisers in the diaspora call 27 November "Martyrs' Day" and mark it as such.
Experts estimate that in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, where oil exploration is mostly banned, there are more than 85 billion barrels in reserves.
Although these are already banned or being phased out, they are thought to be commonly used in Africa.
As many as three hundred thousand sharks are killed annually in the reserve, where shark hunts and industrial fishing are banned.
Such transfusions, which can improve performance in endurance competitions, are banned by antidoping rules.
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