Nicaraguan naval authorities had banned sea travel in the area because of bad weather and strong winds, but the tour boat proceeded anyway.

Vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

That's because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.

Laws can restrict or ban voting, access to public housing, and professional and business licensing.

In some American cities, peer-to-peer taxi services have been banned after lobbying by traditional taxi firms.

One could remove junk food to the back of the store and ban them from the shelves at checkout lines.

Banning the sharing of users' personal information.

In contrast, California, home of Silicon Valley, recently proposed far more restrictive rules that would require human drivers be ready to take the wheel, and ban commercial use of self-driving technology.

The new rule was introduced as part of an anti-obesity campaign that also includes a recent citywide ban on artificial trans fats in restaurant food.

Let us hope these do not include banning gender pronouns,policing children's play, implementing more gender quotas, or treating women's special attachment to home and family as a social injustice.

Robert Summers, who has taught at Cornell Law School for about 40 years, announced this week in a detailed, footnoted memorandum - that he would ban laptop computers from his class on contract law.

I would ban that too if I knew the students were using it in class

Professor Robert Summers at Cornell Law School banned laptop computers from his thinks qualified lawyers need to possess a broad array of complex reasoning abilities.

But I hear her apartment building is about to place a ban on pet animals.

Mary is not happy with the ban on pet animals

Effectively, the ban will include the registration of new cars in the country as they will not allow any gasoline powered vehicle to be registered after 2030.

Many European countries have been making the shift to electric vehicles and Germany has just stated that they plan to ban the sale of vehicles using gasoline and diesel as fuel by 2030.

Part of the reason this ban is being discussed and implemented is because energy officials see that they will not reach their emissions goals by 2050 if they do not eliminate a large portion of vehicle emissions.

Traffic has become synonymous with air pollution, and many countries intend to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the next two decades.

The parliament also agreed to ban websites that “incite excessive thinness” by promoting extreme dieting.

The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women ( ' , and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty.

And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death – as some have done.

Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.

The parliament also agreed to ban websites that \incite excessive thinness\ by promoting extreme dieting.

Thirty years ago, it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs, and yet that is what we have now.