Sentences with phrase «other states banned»
Vermont, Maryland and other states banned felt - soled waders in 2011 out of fear of spread.
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While the researchers didn't dig to find out why some states have wider pay gaps than others, they noted that in recent years, California and New York have banned employers from asking job applicants about their previous salaries.
State energy company Gazprom has cut off gas to Ukraine, and onward to Western Europe, during price disputes in deep winter, and imposed bans on customers reselling gas to other countries.
Among other things, it prohibits sending such waste to non-member states, or to any member country that has banned their import.
A U.S. judge on Thursday granted the state of Hawaii's bid to exempt grandparents and other relatives from President Trump's travel ban.
State Department lawyers banned American ambassadors and other officers from the Ice Bucket Challenge, which benefits Lou Gehrig's disease patients.
During Trump's other weekend in Florida, several thousand people marched near the property to protest his temporary ban on travel to the United States by refugees as well as citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries.
New York and most other states have banned texting while driving for years.
Like reformers in other states, they'd tried to get the legislature to ban high - cost loans outright — but had hit a brick wall.
State laws regarding exotics vary widely; in some states, people can legally own almost any animal; in others, even seemingly innocuous animals like ferrets are banned.
This week the curbs went the other way, when America banned its companies from selling hardware and software for seven years to one of China's state - owned tech champions, ZTE.
Only New York, California, Washington, D.C., and five other states have their own assault - weapon bans, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
As described in this 2015 YouTube video (embedded below), a low social credit score is meant to isolate unruly citizens from the rest of the population and deny them access to state services and benefits via travel bans, increased prices for day - to - day products, higher bank interests, and others.
Iran has announced that it will prevent United States citizens from entering the country in retaliation against President Donald Trump's visa ban against Tehran and six other majority - Muslim countries.
The high - tech trade skirmishes over the past decade are close to devolving into a state of technological autarky, where foreign firms, foreign capital, and foreign researchers are banned from each other's markets.
The officials would not discuss details of those measures, but the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed that it is considering banning laptops and other large electronic devices from carry - on bags on flights between Europe and the United States.
Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.
Others think that overturning Roe would ban abortion everywhere, instead of returning the issue to the states.
Perkins and other conservatives said the ruling, which found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, would overturn marriage bans adopted by dozens of states if it is upheld.
The ban on «God Cares» is one application of state laws widely opposed by the island nation's Christians and other non-Muslims.
Other states across the nation have mulled similar bans.
Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.
Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.
Neuhaus says that I «broke with other religious leaders in opposing a state constitutional amendment banning same - sex marriage.»
The Hill reported that Friday's move further demonstrates the administration's support for state efforts to ban Planned Parenthood from Medicaid programs, as Southern Baptists and other pro-life Christians have hoped for years.
As a result, the product has been effectively banned in the United States and many other countries.
This chemical is banned in many other countries, but allowed in the United States because it extends the shelf life of bread.
A one - year bowl ban isn't a big deal at all, and USC, Ohio State and others have provided helpful road maps on how to recruit around scholarship reductions.
That charge was never proved, but the DIAA banned the top - ranked Lions from the 2010 state playoffs and put them on probation for assorted other violations: exceeding two - hour practice limits, scheduling an extra middle school game and allowing a coach to play an improper role in the awarding of financial aid to players.
Also, many believe the 1992 ban also violates the 10th Amendment and is unconstitutional because it treats states differently, allowing gambling in some states like Nevada but not others.
Blatter last month was banned football for eight years for misconduct in office and the shadow of a scandal - scarred year hung over an event with UEFA president Michel Platini also absent through suspension as well as various other long - serving FIFA grandees either on bail or wanted in the United States.
But other states are considering legislation to ban the practice.
Meanwhile, states aren't waiting for word from Congress: As of 2015, 13 states and the District of Columbia had enacted laws banning the sale of children's products containing BPA such as baby bottles, cups, food containers, and other items.
In their vote on whether or not to ban baby walkers, the CPSC stated that only one - third of injuries were «more severe» than simple mild injuries and that was «similar to that of other commonly used juvenile products, such as cribs, playpens, high chairs, and changing tables.»
Other states (California, Connecticut) are set to follow suit and this precedent by Minnesota will only serve to make further bans more likely.
Minnesota adopted a similar ban last week, and lawmakers in Illinois and several other states are considering their own measures.
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.
On Jan. 1 Illinois became the 23rd state to implement an indoor smoking ban, outlawing smoking in public buildings, including taverns, restaurants, bowling alleys, nightclubs and sports arenas; and within 15 feet of doorways to office towers, train stations and other public buildings.
In some states, public health and school officials would like to ban the miniature cakes from schools entirely, along with all other sugar - laden goodies.
These two incidents were reminiscent of other, similar stories I've reported on in the past: in 2011, a Chicago school principal at the Little Village Academy placed an outright ban on home - packed lunches, setting off a barrage of criticism, and in 2012 there were widespread reports that a North Carolina «state inspector» had forced a child to give up her packed lunch of a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice because the meal did not meet USDA guidelines; instead the child was forced to take the school lunch of chicken nuggets.
Many authors and medical organizations have called for boxing to be banned (Table 1), citing medical, ethical, legal, and moral arguments.8, — , 13 Others state that participants should be allowed to make autonomous decisions about participation and that the role of the medical profession should be restricted to the provision of injury care, advice, and information only.14
The Catch - 22 is that human studies on the effects of ultrasound in the United States and other Western nations are discouraged and virtually banned because such research is considered unethical.
Democrat Jen Lunsford in a statement pointed to the measures backed by the Democratic - led Assembly that, among other things, banned bump stock devices from being possessed in the state and a bill that would make it easier for those deemed to be dangerous to themselves or others to lose their firearm through a court order.
There's a push by some Democratic state lawmakers to explicitly ban so - called «bump» stocks and other devices that allow a semi-automatic gun to mimic automatic fire.
There are thousands of pages of fine detail to sort through, and we know much work remains, like banning other states» fracking waste from being dumped inside our borders,» said Water & Natural Resources Associate Liz Moran.
Currently, 10 municipalities in the state have plastic bag bans while some others, including Long Beach and Suffolk County, have enacted fees.
While gay marriage advocates have enjoyed the upper hand in the courts since then, the Cincinnati - based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month became the first to rule the other way in upholding state bans on gay marriage.
The rules vary at the state level — at least six states allow unlimited contributions from all types of donors, while others ban donations from corporations and other businesses entirely.
He said legislators even have numerous regulatory models to choose from, since only upstate New York and one other state, Alaska, still ban ride - hailing.
The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.