Sentences with phrase «last year banned»

The U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program — a government program that coordinates federal studies of chemicals» adverse effects — warns that BPA exposure may lead to abnormal development in infants and the Canadian government last year banned its use in baby bottles.

JLR is among the automobile companies hit hard by the apex court order in December last year banning registration of diesel SUVs and cars above 2000 cc in the entire National Capital Region till March 31.

Not exact matches

In announcing the ban, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said his agency was punishing ZTE for violating terms of an agreement struck last year to settle allegations that the Chinese company had flouted U.S. restrictions on selling technology to Iran and North Korea.

While the country was once home to the world's most active cryptocurrency exchanges, authorities banned the venues last year and have since moved to block access to platforms that offer exchange - like services.

He was banned from Twitter last year after he called Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones a «black dude.»

Last year, Yahoo banned telecommuting for its employees.

Facebook's banning of Britain First follows in the footsteps of Twitter Inc., which late last year pulled accounts linked to Britain First, alongside U.S. white supremacist organizations like the League of the South and American Renaissance.

The fine, as reported by the New York Times, was levied under rules issued last year that ban not only short - term apartment rentals, but even the advertising of such opportunities.

Last year, the Financial Services Commission banned local finance firms from trading bitcoin futures, according to local publication Business Korea.

Last year, Microsoft's Windows 8 was banned from Chinese government computers for what the government said were security concerns.

Late last year, officials in Utah moved to ban Zenefits; the state's insurance commissioner, Todd Kiser, sent a letter to the company calling its business model a violation of state laws.

Scott also said Friday that he supported a ban on «bump stock» devices, which accelerate semiautomatic rifles» rate of gunfire and were used in last year's shooting in Las Vegas.

Transgender servicemembers have been able to serve openly in the military since last year, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban, declaring it the right thing to do.

The dips seem to be tied to a report that China — which banned cryptocurrency exchanges last year — is taking more action against other online and app - based services that offer exchange - like functionality.

China and South Korea banned ICOs last year due to concerns of illegal activity and speculative investing in the space.

Last year, the government removed a ban on women driving.

Late last week, Federal regulators delivered a crushing blow to the company, withdrawing certification of its Silicon Valley lab and slapping Holmes with a two - year ban from the lab - testing business.

But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how, for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.

Zhang Yiming, the chief executive of Bytedance, last month said on social media that the company would increase the number of employees handling censorship at Toutiao — a popular news app that's also part of the social media giant — to 10,000 after being temporarily banned earlier this year.

The ban became effective in July last year, with a new clause inserted into TfL's advertising policy stating that ads can be rejected if they «could reasonably be seen as likely to cause pressure to conform to an unrealistic body shape, or as likely to create body confidence issues particularly among young people».

Warren's words echo a statement made by former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who ended the transgender military ban for service members just last year.

Last year was a disaster, partly because of the Russian ban but also other tourists didn't arrive because of security concerns,» Mitov said.

One of their past «joint ventures» was with Steven Friedland, whom the B.C. Securities Commission last fall banned from dealing in securities for 20 years.

The WSJ notes that the regulators have gone further than they did when approving AT&T's bid for DirecTV last year, also banning Charter from imposing fees for interconnection deals on companies like Netflix.

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

In May last year, the FCA banned John Christopher Hughes «from performing any function in relation to any regulated activity in the financial services industry for failings related to the $ 2.3 billion unauthorised trading losses by another trader Kweku Adoboli.»

Today's lifting of the ban on general solicitation, item 201 (a), was one part of a handful of measures included in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, known as the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April last year.

The lifting of the ban on general solicitation was just one of a handful of measures included in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April last year.

Bans last up to a year and fines for non-compliance — which can be levied repeatedly — range up to 200,000 forints ($ 707).

The brand has been repeatedly criticized over the last few years for its overly sexy ads, with some being banned outright.

Such bans are a challenge for every drive - thru - based business, but the stakes are especially high for Tim Hortons — last year, 50 % of its $ 2 billion revenue came in via the drive - thru.

The decline last year was mainly due to record exports of crude oil and petroleum products, made possible since Congress lifted the U.S. oil export ban in December 2015.

Last year, suggestions even appeared from politicians trying to ban access to crypto altogether for regular Russians, something which president Vladimir Putin himself later indicated was not what he wanted.

A 27 - year - old man from Zaandam who caused a fatal accident on a country road last October has been jailed for three years and banned from driving for...

He also pledged that Chinese authorities would continue to apply pressure to the trade of digital assets, which was significantly ratcheted up last year with bans on token offerings, colloquially known as ICOs, and on cryptocurrency exchanges, which had to either cease or dramatically reconfigure their operations, or move abroad.

BITHUMB Coin's initial coin offering (ICO), however, can not take place in the exchange's home country of South Korea, since the East Asian nation banned the controversial fundraising method last year.

Bitcoin's rising popularity in Indonesia has alarmed the country's central bank, which said last week it would ban it as a payment method next year.

In Parliament last year, the NDP introduced Bill C448, which would have banned terminator technology.

The Taiwan Parliament announced last year that Taiwan would not follow China's footsteps by completely banning digital currencies.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

Then, the US Commerce Department last week banned ZTE (ZTCOF), which sells smartphones and other telecommunications equipment around the world, from buying product components from American firms for seven years.

The latest sign that China's regulators are actively scrutinizing cryptocurrency exchanges, the report further explained that the execution plan came into effect in September last year when People's Bank of China (PBoC) put out its ban on initial coin offerings (ICO) and ordered closure of fiat - to - crypto trading.

That situation was beginning to reverse itself when Trump reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping last year to lift a 13 - year ban on U.S. beef exports to China.

Last year's college news was about demands for safe spaces, trigger warnings and bans on insensitivity.

The bump stock — a previously obscure gun accessory that became infamous last year when a shooter in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire at helpless concertgoers — is on its way to being banned in Maryland.

The use of high - powered semiautomatic rifles in recent mass shootings, including by Cruz, police say, and in last year's killing of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, has sparked calls to reinstate the 10 - year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004.

Since last year, China has been clamping down on bitcoin trading, banning exchanges and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Last year, after Franklin Graham argued that the US government should ban Muslims from immigrating to America, the NorthWood Church leader joined Muslim leaders in denouncing the comments.

Soulforce members had been arrested at other Christian campuses that ban same - sex behavior, but the group had a cordial gathering at Wheaton and visited again last year.

The crude video, linked to Coptic activists in the United States, prompted the 57 - member Organization of Islamic Cooperation to revive its demand for a UN ban on the defamation of religion (after dropping its decade - long effort last year).