Sentences with phrase «recent years banned»

In Illinois, 376 public outdoor rinks are in operation, but some park districts in recent years banned skating on their ponds because the winters haven't been cold enough to freeze a layer thick enough for safe skating.

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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.

With the United States» Section 301 investigation into Chinese technology transfer and recent ban cutting Chinese telecommunications company ZTE off from US technology for seven years, it is clear that technology issues are...

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.

In recent years, the Board of Health has fought to ban trans fats in restaurant meals, require restaurants to post caloric content on menus and menu boards and limit the size of sugar - sweetened beverages to no more than 16 ounces.

In fact, in recent years, the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries has put a halt on the sale of imported Asian catfish and related fish because much of the product was contaminated by drugs banned by the FDA, according to the CFA.

Prior to the partial ban around 46 Australian plants were licensed for export to China, but the trade has been a choppy one in recent years.

A recent study by Pegasus Economics estimates only around $ 9 million a year in price premiums (averaging $ 2000 per sheep farmer) would be lost to producers if the Fremantle sheep exports were banned.

Animal rights activists see the Muslim and Jewish slaughter methods as unnecessary cruelty and calls to ban this kind of butchering have grown in Europe in recent years as halal meat has become increasingly available in shops and restaurants.

The 26 year - old was believed to be close to agreeing a move to Atletico Madrid in recent months, before the Spanish giants lost out on their appeal to lift a transfer ban, and are subsequently unable to register new players until the new year.

Despite this information, and the recent ban of a number of these stimulants, every year healthy young athletes die due to stimulant use from energy drinks.

A self - deprecating NCAA is a welcome switch from the previously smug organization that has only been moved to meaningful action in the recent past by federal court decisions (the ban on cost - of - attendance stipends became illegal once the NCAA got whipped in O'Bannon vs. NCAA) and terrible PR (Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier made the schools look silly with their food rules by speaking out during a tournament that makes $ 770 million a year for the NCAA in television revenue, hence the unlimited meals rule change).

Knowing that next season will be a World Cup year, the attacker is keen on getting a concrete solution and would have to dismiss potential Atletico return for now due to the club's recent transfer ban.

In recent years, BPA has been banned from baby products, but it used to be found in bottles, toys and sippy cups.

Public outrage over the charges has been fueled by the recent admission by USA Swimming that 36 coaches over a ten - year period have been banned for life for sexually abusing swimmers has drawn outrage among the public.

The beach has had among the highest number of swim bans in recent years because of high bacteria counts.

Chicago recorded its first swim ban of the season Wednesday at a beach plagued in recent years with high levels of bacteria.

CHICAGO — The city's first swim ban of the year was lifted Thursday, a day after high levels of bacteria were detected at a beach that has seen more bans than most Chicago Park District beaches in recent years.

Some schools have banned peanuts and peanut products as the allergy has been diagnosed in an increasing number of youngsters in recent years.

SOUTH SIDE — The city's first swim ban of the year was lifted Thursday, a day after high levels of bacteria were detected at a beach that has seen more bans than most Chicago Park District beaches in recent years.

In recent years, bans on plastic bags have taken hold in jurisdictions dotting the United States.

To its credit, my son's elementary school has made some positive changes in recent years, including stopping the sale of cookies and brownies at morning recess; banning vending machines in student access areas; and restricting bake sales to once a month or less.

Democrats have sought unsuccessfully to pass a range of LGBT rights related bills in recent years, including measures designed to give legal protections to transgender New Yorkers and ban so - called conversion therapy.

In recent years, there has been firm and outspoken support for the ban from MPs who have played an instrumental role in ensuring that the demands of the public, and the needs of the animals, were fulfilled.

Similar legislation to ban high - capacity magazines has failed in recent years.

Cuomo in recent years has approved several executive orders aimed at protecting and bolstering LGBT rights, including actions that aim to prevent discrimination of transgender people in housing and the workplace as well as a ban on so - called conversion therapies.

There are outliers on the top 10 list: Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose chamber approved a ban on hydrofracking multiple times in recent years, has received $ 58,069.

Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who as the city's leading out LGBT elected official had tried to broker an end to the parade's ban, noted that Dolan had in recent years sounded a friendlier tone on the question of participation in the event.

Ukip leadership candidate Lisa Duffy has called for a ban on the Islamic veil; Nigel Farage issued a similar call on 2010 but the party has spoken little on the issue in recent years.

Upon Mayor de Blasio's recent announcement of a new compensation commission, Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, told The New York Post that he supports elected officials getting raises since «eight years is a long time to go without one,» but pointed out that «the real question isn't whether they get raises, it's the size of the raises and whether the commission will look at limiting [elected officials»] outside income and banning «lulus.

Still, the lengthier, more physically challenging journeys in some years may explain why populations of these northern fur seals — considered «depleted» under the Marine Mammal Protection Act — have not rebounded in recent decades despite a hunting ban.

Miller noted the recent ban by Lithuania on the sale of energy drinks to anyone under 18 years of age.

TUESDAY, Nov. 24, 2015 (HealthDay News)-- Infant deaths linked to crib bumpers have spiked in recent years in the United States, leading researchers to urge a ban on the padded bedding accessories.

States including Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California have banned soda from school vending machines and cafeterias in recent years, and public officials are now turning their attention to sports drinks and other sugary beverages.

Even the FDA in recent years has required trans - fatty acid content to be listed on ingredient labels (years after most European nations required the same, or downright banned trans fats.)

In recent years, films were banned for religious and cultural reasons — but sometimes, certain lines in movies angered officials

New York City, Portland, Houston and Washington D.C. have expanded dual immersion offerings in recent years, and districts across California are now poised to take advantage of the model after voters overturned the state's bilingual education ban late last year.

In recent years, studded tires have been similarly banned in 11 states (Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas, and Wisconsin, and Maryland only allows studs in some counties).

Ironically, while many so called third world countries have categorically banned the practice in recent years, apparently in all states in the US it is possible to legally get married younger than 18 in special circumstances such as with parental consent and / or the girl is pregnant.

«Taylor said that during the first five to seven years of the ban, animal control officials would encounter an average of 1,200 pit bulls a year but that in recent years that figure has dropped by about half.

Hundreds of local and county bans have been enacted in recent years, even though a Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) analysis found that at least two - thirds of the bans are in jurisdictions that had no pet store in them prior to the implementation of a ban.

The government has banned several of these chemicals in recent years, but others like tetrachlorvinphos, carbaryl, and propoxur are still sold in pet products.

Over 100 local governments across the United States have passed legislation in recent years that either bans or limits how long a dog may be chained, recognizing that existing animal welfare laws are outdated and that dogs are intelligent, social, active animals that suffer greatly if kept chained or penned for their lives.

The beach got very popular with day trippers in recent years, and starting 2017 day trips by speedboat have been banned.

In Friedrichsplatz, Argentinean artist Marta Minujin has recreated a life - sized Parthenon out of banned books, while in the city's former underground train station Nikhil Chopra's film and painted panorama records the vicissitudes of his recent overland odyssey from Athens (where Documenta had another incarnation earlier this year) to Kassel.

For evidence that US Congress members are more responsive to the interests of Big Oil than to the citizens who elect them, one need look no further than Congress's recent decision to lift the 40 - year ban on oil exports, despite the fact that 69 percent of Americans across both parties support the ban.

We've covered the issue quite extensively, including the recent controversy surrounding neonicotinoids - based pesticides (4 chemicals in that family were banned last year in the EU).

In this installment of TreeHugger Radio we look at the winners of this year's Globie Awards while TreeHugger correspondent Warren McLaren reports from Sydney on Australia's recent move to ban the bulb.

Stepping into the void of inaction or deregulation by other levels of government, in recent years First Nations have banned proposed heavy oil pipelines from their territories, denied consent to... [more]

According to recent reports, US President Donald Trump's questionable travel ban in January this year, limiting travel from Muslim countries around the world, has been mostly reinstated until the Supreme Court hears the case against it in October.