Sentences with phrase «books in the ban»

The inclusion of books in the ban sparked a protest campaign by the Howard League for Penal Reform and English PEN.

Not exact matches

«The data forces a compelling conclusion that Donald Trump's travel ban immediately caused a significant drop in bookings to the USA and an immediate impact on future travel,» said Olivier Jager, CEO of ForwardKeys, in a press release.

The ban also means that, for the foreseeable future, travelers booked on more than 125 affected flights a day to the U.S. and U.K. will have to put devices such as tablets, e-readers, cameras, laptops, portable DVD players, and video games in checked baggage.

Over 50 years ago, one of the earliest champions of brainstorming, Alex Osborn, a U.S. advertising executive, developed rules for the practice — such as banning criticism and encouraging freewheeling — which he published in his 1953 book Applied Imagination.

One of the best examples ever of this comes from the the truly excellent band Van Halen, and why it included a clause banning brown M&M s from its phone book - length standard concert contract in the 1980s.

When the travel ban was in place from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4, bookings to the United States dropped 6.5 %, including an 80 % slump in reservations from the seven countries listed on Trump's order and a 13.6 % drop from Western Europe.

Case in point: Following the Enron blow - up, the Financial Accounting Standards Board banned an accounting practice that Enron had used to book expected future profits as earnings, immediately, at very the moment it made an investment.

«I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun,» he wrote in his 2000 book, «The America We Deserve.»

By September, the People's Bank of China, working in tandem with the financial regulator in the country, was banning initial coin offerings (ICOs) and shutting down domestic fiat - to - crypto order book trading.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

In terms of getting free publicity, I like the recent example of Anthony Bourdain who made the smart more to get his imprint's book banned on Twitter.

Brings to mind the recent banning of a book, once printed in the US & still in print overseas, as a «forgery».

In this republic of silence for women, men have once again expropriated literacy, hoarded books and banned acts of reading from public places, replacing lettered signs with pictures.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the grounds that such books were «sexist».

Rushdie's depiction of Muhammad and other Islamic figures in the book offended some members of Islam, and the novel was banned in India soon after its publication.

Her mother has banned her from watching certain tv shows or reading certain books in case they corrupt her, etc etc..

It's like the religious nuts who try to ban books in schools.

In his splendid new book, Lance Banning tries to make sense of this apparent reversal.

If Banning's account has a shortcoming, it is in his effort to explain this two-fold commitment to the «sacred fire of liberty,» the Madisonian phrase that provides the book's title.

The warnings against Jehovah's Witnesses have stacked up over the past decade in particular, with dozens of regional charges of extremism and more than 80 of its books, pamphlets, and other texts (including its magazine, The Watchtower) banned in Russia, according to The Moscow Times.

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.

A tabloid PAID someone lie and say there was tape on Jackson which was a LIE and that person was ordered to PAY Jackson along with a book that came out that year which was BANNED in the United States.

Marc Herman's job with PAW, he writes in Harper's magazine, «was to research book banning in the public schools and, particularly, to investigate evidence of censorship promulgated by the religious right.»

What one finds art may be objectionable to another, but it does not give any one the right to destroy it.It is getting quite absurd they tactics religious zealots are taking in this country,, to book banning's and book burning's.

Books are very expensive in South Africa, partially due to the censorship laws (a banned person's books are all retroactively contraband) which have made remaindering impossible and partially due to the high cost of importing bBooks are very expensive in South Africa, partially due to the censorship laws (a banned person's books are all retroactively contraband) which have made remaindering impossible and partially due to the high cost of importing bbooks are all retroactively contraband) which have made remaindering impossible and partially due to the high cost of importing booksbooks.

No one was up in arms to ban the book or censor the book from being published.

Someone wrote a book about Hindus, some priest in India got mad, and literally got the book legally banned in India because it, in HIS OWN WORDS, hurt his feelings.

In 1616 the Catholic Church banned all books that suggested the earth moved at all.

The darkness in the Harry Potter books has alarmed some Christians, and some schools in the U.S. have been pressured to ban them.

He explained, critically, that in spite of the Safe Conduct on his way to Worms, he found his books had been burnt and banned: «These things could have frightened and held back this poor little monk»; nevertheless, he had put his trust in the Emperor's Safe Conduct.

The belief in the disposition of God for good and for bad — the sixth fundamental belief of Islam — finds expression especially in the night in the middle of the month Sha «ban which in the law books is counted among the six most important nights of the year.

In order to have a concept of «disorder» we need to have a concept of «order» and since this book completely fails to explain the Catholic view of sexuality and vocation to family life, the ban on artificial contraception can only be described as some kind of pointless arbitrary rule.

However his side's ban from competing in European competition in 2013/14 has pretty much made his exit a certainty with the club's Qatari owners looking to balance the books.

I really rate Coquelin and he has improved 100 % but as almost all the gunners fans know and at least all of the pundits are saying we need another of his ilk on the books in order to have cover in case Coquelin gets injured or banned and this needs to be addressed along with the Striker problem which in my mind is the reason we have fallen short again in the seasons progress.

April 20 — In the latest match fixing - related case to hit English football, a lower - league player has been banned for six years for twice intentionally getting booked.

The red card shown to the 21 year old Nigerian is his second of the season, and it automatically triggers an extra match suspension instead of the one game ban for accumulative bookings in a game.

Wilfred Ndidi will serve a two match ban for picking up two bookings which lead to his dismissal in Leicester City's 2 - 0 win over Brighton over the weekend in the English Premier League.

• Felipe is available after serving a one - match ban in the first leg; André André and Danilo will incur a suspension with their next bookings.

Juventus • Paulo Dybala is banned after his first - leg red card while Rodrigo Bentancur is also suspended following his booking in the first game, although Miralem Pjanić and Medhi Benatia are available again after missing the game in Turin through suspension.

He was also booked for making a vulgar gesture at Cagliari supporters, served two three - match bans and was caught smoking in the toilet of a train by a ticket collector.

In celebration, I decided to revisit an old fave of mine from this list of the Banned and / or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century.

The ban on phthalate makes California the first state to impose severe limits on a chemical that is widely used in baby bottles, soft baby books, teething rings, plastic bath ducks and other toys, said Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D - San Francisco), the bill's author.

Chua's book was a somewhat tongue - in - cheek memoir of her experiences raising her two daughters with her (non-Asian) husband, which involved hours of forced music practice every day, severe restrictions on extracurriculars, outright bans on social activities like sleepovers, and punishment and shaming on the rare occasions her children failed to attain their mother's high expectations.

Iran goes so far as to ban other words as well, for example, the word «wine» was recently banned, and any animal names that are considered «foreign» are not allowed to be used in children's books.

In a related development, chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said the book ban policy was a result of ministers trying to control prison policy from the centre.

Senior Lib Dem figures like Nick Clegg and Simon Hughes have been vocal in their support for the ban, saying that prisoners can have up to 12 books in their cell at one time.

«That this House is deeply concerned by the ban on all prisoners receiving books as gifts under the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme which will have a detrimental effect on prisoner rehabilitation; notes that the ban has been opposed by eminent writers including Mark Haddon, Philip Pullman and Carol Ann Duffy; further notes that to deny prisoners the books they need in order to improve their skills and support their learning is both unreasonable and counter-productive given that reading goes hand - in - hand with education, rehabilitation and humanity; and urges the government to reverse the ban as soon as possible by exempting books from the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme.»

This was always the greatest problem with the incentives and earned privileges scheme which Grayling brought in, of which the book ban was a part.

Her diary «Verbification worries» (TP, January) reminded me of a verbified noun to which I have taken offence in the past, but which I forgot to include in my book, The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliché.

The Fix NYC panel is also recommending that cops better enforce rules already on the books — such as those banning drivers from blocking intersections in bus - only lanes — and suggesting City Hall roll back the number of city - issued parking placards that allow drivers to defy parking regulations with impunity.