Example sentences for: banning

How can you use “banning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While we snicker at rules banning Midol from junior high schools, we ignore the damage wrought by laws prohibiting selectively demonized drugs--notably marijuana, heroin, and cocaine (while allowing use of tobacco, alcohol, and Prozac).

  • Against the backdrop of the U.S. bombing campaign against Serbia, tension over the civil war in Chechnya, and Congress' failure to ratify a treaty banning nuclear tests, a Russian political establishment drifting toward intransigence seems unlikely to give the United States a free pass on missile defenses.

  • Authorities have responded by banning the novel and arresting its putative distributors.

  • The WP reports that just prior to leaving Seattle, President Clinton signed a bill banning extreme conditions of child labor, citing as he did so the examples of Brazil, Pakistan, and Guatemala.

  • The press in the US is virtually enjoined these days from identifying people by race in the text of articles, a practice that has extended to the banning of songs and spirituals like Ol' Black Joe . But that is got round either by showing a photograph or by making certain that we learn the subject's name is Wong Fu, Takashimaya, Goldberg, O'Rourke, Nielsen, Gandhi, Rashid, Zbigniew, Molotov , etc., though one is less likely these days to be able to identify race, color, or ethnicity from certain names (like Livingston, for example).


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