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

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Recognition of the harm asbestoscan do and the ban on its new uses did not take place until recently.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

The ban in the UAE could affect half a million BlackBerry users while Saudi Arabia has about seven hundred thousand users.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

In the year and a half before the ban, hospitals had 399 admissions for heart attacks.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

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

In a similar period starting 18 months after the ban, the number was 237.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

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

VOA: special.2009.06.16

But the ban does not limit access on other computers.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He asked the officials to lift the ban.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

Wearing them probably just for fun,". The ban includes a number of exemptions for artists,educators and collectors of communist relics.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Mustafa argues that whatever the original point of the ban, it has been so widely violated as to become meaningless.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Twenty-four-year-old Lukasz Pawlowski says he agrees with the ban, if only because it protects the feelings of older Poles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

(Talking) She says that the ban may be absurd, but Polish people got used to many absurd laws during communist times.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

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

Scientists hope the ban would allow bluefin to recover. But while international trade could be outlawed, officials say a robust black market could survive.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

But,that hope was dashed recently when Russia's Supreme Court upheld the ban on female train drivers.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The ban was proposed by President Kaczynski's far-right Law and Justice party.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Lawyers have questioned the legality of the ban on political rallies, but officials continue to insist they are more interested in ensuring public safety than stifling political dissent.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The ban applies to a type of transaction known as "naked short-selling."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

What we will say is this is one of the instruments -- by reinstating the ban -- that could have a profound impact on the number and caliber of weapons going down to Mexico,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

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

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Last week President Obama again called for ending a ban against people in the military who are openly homosexual.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06