It also helped spur the Federal Election Commission to bar the use of campaign contributions for non-campaign activities.

NPR: The Volatile Mix of Politics and Golf

That moved the battle to lawyer-friendly states, where bar associations have taken over the campaign.

FORBES: We the Undercutters

Egged on by Mr Ocalan, the BDP has raised the bar with a civil-disobedience campaign that has seen a Kurdish female parliamentarian slap a policeman.

ECONOMIST: Turkey and its Kurds

It is not hard to imagine a chocolate-bar manufacturer that might lead a similar campaign to the red planet.

ECONOMIST: Letters

"It's obvious there is an Iranian campaign, " said Shmuel Bar, an Israeli counterterrorism expert at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya.

WSJ: Israel Blames Iran For Attack in Bulgaria

To prevent such a catastrophe, incumbent politicians such as McCain and Lieberman, who want us to trust them, have been busily enacting campaign-finance rules that bar anyone without a personal fortune from displacing them.

FORBES: Magazine Article

His spokesman said March 10 that the congressman considers the sentence passed by U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Paez to be no bar to his continued service and no hindrance to his re-election campaign.

CNN: Kim Escapes Prison Sentence But Still Faces Ethics Panel

This also explains a Big Labor demand to bar companies from requiring their workers to hear management's side during a union campaign.

WSJ: The New Old 'Card Check'

Its political spending exceeded that of all other groups bar the two parties in the 2010 mid-terms, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign-finance watchdog.

ECONOMIST: Corporate lobbying