The ban has the secondary aim of preventing Palestinian discontent from spinning dangerously out of control.
However, the ban has failed to dispel the fear gripping financial markets and bank stocks in particular.
The ban has raised the market price so much that whales have been nicknamed the "Sea Lottery".
The trouble, as officials admit, is that the ban has driven the practice, unsafely and unhygienically, into illegal shadows.
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In areas where the ban has been in place for longer than 18 months, the increased accident rate is 19%.
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Researchers say the ban has limited their progress and want the opportunity to create new stem cells from human embryos.
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But now, after 17 years, the ban has been lifted after an appeal from Bethesda Softworks, who now owns Id, original creator of Doom.
Villagers say the ban has turned friends and relations into criminals, and fiercely resist the idea that they are being forced into giving up the practice.
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Iraq's Interior Ministry, however, said the ban has been lifted in some areas, and witnesses said a vehicle entry point into Sadr City has been opened.
However it remains unclear whether the ban has been enforced.
But the ban has stirred up a hornets' nest.
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Some may feel that the proposed ban has as much to do with the appearance of independence as with its reality.
"I don't think the assault rifle ban, the semi-auto ban, has been the real objective, " said Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.
The alcohol ban has raised questions over how easily Qatar can bridge the two worlds.
However, the proposed ban has little chance of becoming law due to fierce opposition by the National Rifle Association and a certain GOP filibuster.
The assault weapons ban has generated the fiercest opposition of any of the measures, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
The campaign to ban the traps has been backed by high-profile figures, including Queen guitarist Brian May, actresses Joanna Lumley and Annette Crosby, and UN Messenger of Peace and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall.
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The travel ban has also hurt tour firms in Nepal and in China's Sichuan province.
The smoking ban has been successful and people are healthier.
The handgun ban has only served to persecute a minority group that was already extremely law-abiding , and to inflict a severe cost upon the taxpayer of this country to the detriment of other areas that would really benefit society such as hospitals and education.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which handed out the original ban, has until 3 December to lodge its appeal against the rescinding of the ban.
Accordingly, as we head into the new Congress and the expiration of the earmark moratorium, should we not be questioning whether the ban on earmarks has delivered the results that were intended?
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There has been much discontent in Pakistan with the ban, which has also affected Android mobile phone services run by Google.
"The interior ministry has decided to ban the gathering of Ansar al-Sharia, which has shown disdain for state institutions, incited violence against them and poses a threat to public security, " a statement said.
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The Salt Lake City ban has got people talking about the new show, a bonus going into the crowded Fall season.
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In the case of the test ban treaty, the administration has demonstrated little of either.
The United Nations has 9, 000 peacekeepers in Haiti -- 3, 000 of them in the capital -- and Ban has requested that the U.N.
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