They want to keep the ban to pressure Israel over the status of Palestinians and Israel's encroachment in Arab parts of Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

In the year 2000, the United States did ease the agricultural export ban to Cuba, but a later tightening of policy, to require advance cash payments, choked off Cuban purchases of US grain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The question was this: did Congress have the power to control or even ban slavery in the new territories?

VOA: special.2009.03.05

In January of this year, the Supreme Court, by the narrowest majority, voted five to four to end the ban.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

On a separate issue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week criticized international efforts by Islamic countries to ban anti-religious speech.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

His coach later said he would urge Phelps not to compete internationally until the ban takes effect next year.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

In recent years there has been a strong push for local and state governments to ban public smoking.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Some lawmakers are proposing to renew a former ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, like what the gunman had.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

This week,U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent his top aide to press for an end to the Sri Lankan conflict.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Rachel Carson did not live to see how her book influenced the governments decision to ban DDT.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

On Tuesday, its officers accepted a decision by FINA members to ban high-tech swimsuits next year.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Some have called for journals to identify ghostwritten articles and ban their authors from future publication.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Recently,Wyclef travelled to Haiti with former President Bill Clinton and United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon .

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Since the nineteen eighties, several libraries and parents' groups have tried to ban her books.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

The exhibit shows newspaper headlines about efforts to ban Elvis's rebellious music, even his hairstyle.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The judge said many consider this a "lawyer's trick" to avoid the ban on the direct patenting of DNA, but the result is the same.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Mrs.Obama says her idea is not to ban fun foods from a child's life.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Thirty of the fifty states have changed their constitutions to ban same-sex marriage.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

We will tell about an agreement to ban nine dangerous chemicals.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

But it is hard to enforce the ban in many places.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

And,they hope to ban its use by two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

They wanted to ban slavery everywhere in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Mister Ban urged the donors to carry out their promises.

VOA: special.2010.04.02