Sentences with phrase «banned in a few countries»

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And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

Bitcoin demand spiked in Argentina in 2013 after former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner banned dollar purchases, while Ecuador and Bolivia are among the few countries that have outright bans on the currency.

This toxic pesticide is banned in a few EU countries but may sneak into exported processed foods — and let's face it, what doesn't contain wheat these days?

However, few of the dozens of plots in the U.S. during and after 2001 were attempted or carried out by suspects who came from the countries targeted under the ban.

Social media footsoldiers of the ruling New Patriotic Party government have, in the past few days been circulating a story from a fake news website which alleges that the former Chief of Staff has been banned from travelling to seven western countries because of his involvement in visa racketeering while he was the Chief of Staff.

The problem is that clenbuterol has extensive side effects and has in fact been banned in the US and is no longer a part of any therapeutic drug approved by the FDA and is available in only few countries via prescription alone as a bronchodilator.

The X-Trail will also be the first hybrid SUV to go on sale in the country and one of the few SUVs that doesn't fall within the Supreme Court's purview of banned vehicles in Delhi.

In 1982, a ban on commercial whaling was adopted and all but a few countries ceased whaling.

There were few repercussions in the US because of earlier US efforts to reduce and end malaria in the US, but this action soon led to banning DDT in many less developed countries where malaria was prevalent and is much more effectively controlled by using DDT than any other pesticide.

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While shark finning is illegal in the U.S., current federal laws banning the practice do not address the issue of the shark fin trade, so shark fins are imported to the U.S. from countries with few or even no shark protections in place,» notes Oceana.

Despite turmoil like ICOs being banned in China and South Korea, cryptocurrencies in general coming under scrutiny in other countries, and internal divisions and infighting in the Bitcoin community, the price of bitcoin continued its steady trend upward, accelerating in the last few months of 2017 despite naysayers.

A few days ago, Iranian parliamentarian, Alaeddin Boroujerdi told media that Iran's «highest level» officials wish to ban Telegram by April 20 due to the app's monopoly position within the country and concerns that Telegram's cryptocurrency may «undermine the national currency» in Iran.

Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm in the past few years and that has led to larger countries like Russia and China imposing bans on their trade.