Sentences with phrase «phone ban in»

As mayor, Bloomberg strengthened the cell - phone ban in schools.

(Most calls for cell phone bans in Europe seem to relate to the idea that extreme overuse might cause cancer: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-phones-idUSBRE89I0V320121019 My understanding is that there is still a great deal of debate as to whether this is so, and can serve to illustrate the interaction of the law and science.)

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If I ban mobile phones in the office, no one will waste time texting and talking to family and friends, right?

«Upgrading to a larger memory phone might be in order,» said Farecompare CEO Rick Seaney, whose research shows the ban will initially affect over 40,000 potentially inconvenienced fliers.

So, when street signs started popping up explaining cell - phone use was banned in the area last month in city parks and green spaces, some people took them seriously.

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.

Chinese phone maker ZTE hit back at U.S. government efforts to destroy its business in this country, saying a seven - year sales ban is «extremely unfair» and «unacceptable.»

Armed police and paramilitary forces in Xinjiang, a territory in western China inhabited by the Uighur minority, stop random pedestrians to check their phones and laptops for banned apps and messages deemed dangerous to the Chinese Communist Party, BuzzFeed News reported.

In April the federal government banned technology sales to Chinese phone maker ZTE Corp. for seven years.

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And shopping in bed — I had to ban my phone from my room so I would stop doing that!

Perhaps it would be best from here on in that the Frenchman is given a ban from his phone before he causes any further outrage.

Mr Wenger followed the instructions but was seen in the stands to be giving instructions on his phone, now that of course could have been a non related phone call, but was seen as coaching from the stands which was not allowed, so he was administered another games ban.

The accomplishments described were impressive — all junk food gone from the a la carte line and vending machines, sodas banned, improved federal meals — and I immediately tracked down Dana and arranged a phone call to see if these sorts of changes could be made in my own Houston district.

The letter writers insist that a ban on smoking in the car with children would not set any more of a legal precedent than enforcing the wearing of seat belts or banning the use of mobile phones behind the wheel.

His bill banning the use of handheld cell phones while driving became the first such state law in the entire country in 2000.

Figures released earlier this year showed a big spike in the number of incidents of prisoners taking receipt of drugs, mobile phones and other banned products via unmanned aircraft.

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There is currently a ban on using evidence from phone taps, but this could be lifted in the wake of comments from Lord Goldsmith, who said information gained in this way should be used in terrorism and organised crime cases.

The burning of the phones is to reinforce strict compliance with the ban on the use of mobile phones in all second - cycle schools.

In this phone call, the Skeloses lament Cuomo's ban on fracking because they had hoped that the younger Skelos could profit from the gas drilling process.

Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne's Cabinet future was in doubt last night after sensational details were revealed of a phone call he made to the person he allegedly persuaded to take his speeding points so he could avoid a driving ban.

When you have a moment, please pick up the phone to call Governor Cuomo at 518-474-8390 and thank him for banning fracking in New York State.

The son of disgraced state Sen. Dean Skelos called Gov. Cuomo a «p — y» and urged his powerful dad to «kick his ass» for banning fracking in the state, according to wiretapped phone conversations played Wednesday in the father - son corruption trial.

Democrats in the Senate, meanwhile, objected to a new rule implemented by the GOP leadership banning the use of cell phones to make pictures or record videos during session.

They advanced rules reforms to ban the use of any cell phones as a recording device in the chamber or in the ante-chamber where legislators routinely gladhand with lobbyists.

In response to an announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña on lifting the city's existing ban on cell phones and other electronic devices on school property, UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement supporting the decision.

«The MIT data indicate that regulation [banning cell phone use] may be reasonable so long as it is followed up with good enforcement, and that together these would result in a decrease in unsafe driving behavior.»

«Cell phone bans have reduced cell phone use by drivers, but the perplexing thing is that they haven't reduced crashes,» says Russ Rader, a spokesperson for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Arlington, Virginia, who was not involved in the new study.

Still, cell phone bans may save lives, says David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

One of the first analyses of laws banning disposal of electronic waste (e-waste) in municipal landfills has found that state e-waste recycling bans have been mostly ineffective, although California's Cell Phone Recycling Act had a positive impact on cell phone recycPhone Recycling Act had a positive impact on cell phone recycphone recycling.

When Lucius bans the use of cell phones in Miseryville, Jimmy turns to Dr. Scientist to help cure cell - obsessed Beezy of his mobile - mania.

Targett says that banning mobile phones «sends out a contradictory message to pupils» and that schools need to teach students to «use technology responsibly in their everyday lives».

The results indicate that there was an improvement of 6.41 % in test scores after mobile phones were banned.

Eastment claims that banning mobile phones in the classroom «removes an incredibly powerful educational resource» and a better solution would be to engage students through their devices and «enable pupils to explore the world from their desks».

LSE surveyed schools in four UK cities of Birmingham, London, Leicester and Manchester and found that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increased post mobile phone ban.

The Pew Research Center in April 2010 released results from a survey that confirmed the ubiquity of cell phones among teenagers, some of whom manage to send text messages from class, even when the technology is banned in their school.

Schools, States Review Cell Phone Bans More than a decade after many school systems and states prohibited students from carrying and using pagers and cellular phones in school, state lawmakers and administrators are rethinking their positions.

While banning cell phones and calling in the cops might be options of last resort, they won't do much to improve a school's culture.

When cell phones, pagers, and beepers began to spread into the mainstream in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most districts and even states moved to ban them from school grounds.

This is a study of schools that have judged it necessary to impose a draconian ban that phones can not be brought to school or must be handed in.

The researchers surveyed 91 schools in four English cities and found that, after they had banned mobile phones, test scores for students aged 16 rose by 6.4 per cent.

This year, France will be enforcing a total ban on mobile phone usage in primary and middle schools across the country.

The Centre for Economic Performance paper by Louis - Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy, that gave rise to an article in the Guardian claiming that banning mobile phones in schools raises the performance of pupils, is a classic example of the danger of taking a micro view of a macro phenomenon.

«We find that following a ban on phone use, student test scores improve by 6.41 %... our results indicate that there are no significant gains in student performance if a ban is not widely complied with,» Beland and Murphy write in the LSE paper.

Banning mobile phones from schools boosts student performance in high stakes tests, according to a study published by the London School of Economics (LSE).

From a small and heavily skewed sample of schools, the authors generalise to suggest that the education of the lower quartile of secondary students would be enhanced, and educational inequality reduced if the use of mobile phones was banned in schools.

The discipline policy shifts by a range of governments have yielded real change: In 2014, California became the first state in the nation to ban «willful defiance» suspensions for its youngest students — a category of misconduct that includes refusing to remove a hat, to wear the school uniform, or to turn off a cell phonIn 2014, California became the first state in the nation to ban «willful defiance» suspensions for its youngest students — a category of misconduct that includes refusing to remove a hat, to wear the school uniform, or to turn off a cell phonin the nation to ban «willful defiance» suspensions for its youngest students — a category of misconduct that includes refusing to remove a hat, to wear the school uniform, or to turn off a cell phone.

Rules banning commercial bus and truck drivers from texting on the job and restricting train operators from using cell phones and other electronic devices while in the driver's seat have been posted today.

Throughout the year, Secretary LaHood called on states to adopt tough penalties for cell phone use while driving, and DOT released sample legislation lawmakers could use to pass texting bans in their states.