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Example sentences for: barring

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Barring some unlikely last minute intervention by the ayatollah, Kouri's conviction should serve to further increase tensions between hard-liners and reformers, making February's parliamentary elections all the more volatile.
However, complainants could contend that in practice it was discriminatory: It actually affected only the group of protestors who opposed the WTO, and some reports suggest that police were barring people based on their style of dress.
The piece reports that in Texas, a committee of lawyers is trying to ban self-help legal software via a statute barring anyone--or anything, the paper wryly notes--from practicing law without a license.
Various parties in the dispute blamed: 1) Ocalan, for causing thousands of deaths over the years; 2) Turkey, for suppressing the Kurds and barring Ocalan's lawyers from his upcoming trial; 3) Greece, for helping him evade capture; and 4) Israel, for allegedly facilitating his capture.
The Post notes however, that unlike last week's Citicorp/Travelers move, which challenges Depression-era laws barring different types of financial services from being offered by a single company, this bank merger is within the boundaries of current law, because in 1994, Congress allowed coast-to-coast banking.