Sentences with phrase «as local bans»

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Bitcoin slumped as South Korea's justice minister reiterated his proposal to ban local cryptocurrency exchanges, fueling concern that a government crackdown will erode one of the world's biggest sources of demand for digital currencies.

As it stands, the law prevents local governments in North Carolina from passing nondiscrimination ordinances, and bans transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.

In June 2009, as a response to widespread calls for bans or other anti-bag measures from environmental groups, the city of Toronto required that all local stores charge 5 cents for every plastic bag they handed out.

The new guidance is of a piece with other recent regulatory moves China has been making as it attempts to limit the reach of the bitcoin industry — like shutting down local bitcoin exchanges and outright banning ICOs.

But the firm's 22 - page paper declares that «bitcoin does qualify as Islamic money, except where it is banned by a local government.»

South Korea's government said on Thursday it plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, sending bitcoin prices plummeting and throwing the virtual coin market into turmoil as the nation's police and tax authorities raided local exchanges on alleged tax evasion.

The secretary of Iran's High Council of Cyberspace (HCC) has publicly supported the potential ban of Telegram within the country, citing the chat app's recent Initial Coin Offering (ICO) as potentially «undermin [ing] the national currency of Iran,» local news outlet Al - Monitor reported yesterday, April 3.

As a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory CommitteAs a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committeas chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committee.

According to Al - Monitor, the discussion about banning Telegram originally stemmed from both a desire to support local apps, as well as national security concerns due to the fear that the app could be used in future protests, as it was most likely used in the Dec. 2017 Iranian demonstrations.

While China strictly banned initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrency exchanges platforms and Macau's monetary regulator barred local firms from providing ICO - related financial services, Hong Kong has emerged as something as an ICO hub.

As Banning reminds us, Madison's fear of abusive local majorities was always accompanied by «a profound commitment to effective popular control» and «a lively fear of distant, independent rulers.»

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Mr Silva said: «I am proposing that we go to the local council and get this man banned from preaching in the town centre as locals want a hassle - free shopping experience.»

As local work on perinatal regionalization, a system of designating where infants are born or are transferred based on the amount of care that they need at birth, continues, more community hospitals may reverse their VBAC bans.

In this episode, we chat about how that all happened, how he finds inspiration in everyday life as a dad and why he's pretty much been banned from his local soft play centre...

As the executive director of NYSHEPA, Nancy ran an 800 member - strong coalition and advocated at the local, state and federal level for numerous nutrition and physical activity measures including school nutrition standards, calorie labeling, trans fat ban, Complete Streets, breastfeeding bill of rights, nutrition standards for fast - food kids» meals sold with toys, Safe Routes to School, nutrition standards for foods marketed to children, and the sugar - sweetened beverage tax.

Other names banned in Morocco include names of Amazigh origin (a minority ethnic group in the country) like, Yelli, as they do not «identify» with the local culture.

Our decision is often influenced by local municipalities» decisions, such as a parking ban or school closing.

In Singapore, where political content is banned entirely on local television (I wonder how they handle satellite...), citizens are coming to depend on web video for basic content such as coverage of rallies and speeches.

Corona has been singled out as having the highest rate of childhood obesity in the city, but City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) joined with local business owners and a new coalition last Thursday to say Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda ban is the wrong way to fight it.

As Governor Andrew Cuomo joins the push to ban plastic bags in New York State, a local environmental advocate is moving forward with a cause of her own.

Bloomberg has largely avoided commenting on local politics, though he has allowed aides, such as Wolfson, to occasionally defend his record, and did criticize Governor Cuomo earlier this year for his decision to ban hydrofracking statewide and allow casinos in upstate regions.

Despite New York City's status as a sanctuary city, federal agents can not be banned from public buildings and continue to make arrests despite outcry from local elected officials.

The point is to highlight Kennedy's push to make texting - while driving ban a primary offense in Erie County as a local legislator.

Section 28, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities, is universally viewed as a travesty within mainstream political opinion.

As for other town business, Leifeld noted that the town's upcoming monthly meeting next week would include discussion of, and probable passage of a local law banning the technique known as hydrofracking in Olive, furthering a move the town started last April when it adopted a moratorium against frackinAs for other town business, Leifeld noted that the town's upcoming monthly meeting next week would include discussion of, and probable passage of a local law banning the technique known as hydrofracking in Olive, furthering a move the town started last April when it adopted a moratorium against frackinas hydrofracking in Olive, furthering a move the town started last April when it adopted a moratorium against fracking.

As such, today I join our County's Environmental Management Council, some of whom have joined us today, and call for the passage of a local law which will ban all lightweight, disposable plastic bags in our county.

More than 80 Uber drivers protested a proposed six - month Suffolk ban on ride - sharing operators as a way for the county to leverage a local share of $ 24 million in revenue from the 4 percent state surcharge on ridesharing.

According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.

Legislator Patrick Burke, Legislature Chair Peter Savage, and community members joined Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz as he signed a local law banning conversion therapy in Erie County into effect.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced that he has asked the Oneida County Board of Legislators to adopt a countywide local law banning the synthetic drugs that are used in chemical compounds referred to as «bath salts.»

Under the proposal endorsed by local governments, 10,000 acres would be classified as Wild Forest — a designation that would allow more recreational usage — and the rest as Wilderness, the most restrictive classification that would ban most activities aside from foot traffic.

As many of you may recall, this past summer the Erie County Legislature approved a local law banning the sale of products with microbeads.

Even as the governor says a long - awaited study is nearing completion, a large group of local officials want the ban to continue.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has disclosed that the state would neither ban grazing nor farming, even as he warned Fulani herdsmen and local farmers...

Martens, when he spokes, said that restrictions already on hydrofracking in the New York City watershed as well as local towns that have banned its development mean that «the prospects for [hydrofracking] development in New York State are uncertain at best.»

He also said that fracking serves as an excellent example of how community activists grapple with contentious energy issues and the environment, particularly because of recent legislation that makes local fracking bans illegal in states such as Texas.

The report's «Top 10» list of recommended actions includes a new international treaty with strong monitoring and enforcement mechanisms; domestic and local regulatory actions, such as bans of the most common and damaging types of plastic litter; extended producer - responsibility programs; and the creation of an «ocean friendly» certification program for plastic products.

BSL restrictions may include a total breed ban, or some lesser rules such as (but not limited to): higher licensing fees, registering the dog as dangerous with local governments, liability insurance coverage, mandatory sterilization, muzzling on public property, placement of warning signage on private property, and standardized caging requirements.

Australia's biggest livestock exporter, Wellard, has failed to excite investors after it listed on the ASX, with its stock plunging as much as per cent Donald Trump has threatened to pull # 700 million worth of investment from Scotland if MPs ban him from entering the country but locals say investment and

You know the story: A smart - aleck city teen named Ren (Wormald) moves to a tiny rural town where dancing has been banned, falls for the defiant daughter (Julianne Hough) of a local preacher / city council member (Dennis Quaid), and, with the support of hayseed sidekick Willard (Miles Teller), ultimately pushes the town's moral needle by using Bible verses to recast his bumping and grinding as a holy act.

Local gas stations and convenience stores appear to be newport cigarettes experiencing an uptick in sales over the last couple of weeks as the Oneida Indian Nation's supply of mainstream brand cigarettes dwindles.But earlier this year Kinley Tshering, then a media consultant in the capital, Thimphu, discussed with friends over drinks the jailing of a Buddhist monk for three years for possessing $ 3 worth of tobacco, one of the first to be prosecuted under a new law banning public smoking cheap newport cigarettes.

Despite insistence from the local authorities that security is super tight, Banning has a bad feeling about this — and as it turns out, he's right.

Most people remember it as a rock «n» roll flick about a kid who brings back dancing to an uptight Midwestern town where the local preacher has successfully had it banned.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Schools.

letting teachers teach, treating each student as an unique individual, limiting standardized testing, banning those with profit motives from our schools, addressing poverty as a roadblock to learning, and maintaining local, community control of schools.

One local school board member has banned me from commenting on his «public figure» Facebook page (which I see as a free speech violation), both because I questioned his denial of SGPs and some other conflicts of interests I saw, although indirectly related to this particular case.

The film takes an intimate look at the truth behind these laws and the effect they have on local communities, following Lakewood (a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio) as city council proposes and eventually passes a ban on «pit bulls,» citing the state law as one of their primary reasons.

«It creates an exemption for local pet sellers and allows those sellers to sell puppies but down right ban retail stores such as Petland,» says Attorney Thomas Shults.

While Pit Bulls are amazing family pets, be sure to check your local legislation before adopting one as they are unfortunately banned in quite a few cities across the United States!