Sentences with phrase «year international ban»

Given the 18 - year international ban on international ivory trade, the 12th Conference of the Parties decided in 2002 that a second international auction of ivory from these southern African stockpiles could go ahead but only if a number of conditions had been met.

«Four months without being able to play a competitive game and a two - year international ban is too much.

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Ethiopian lawmakers likewise recently invoked the 2012 case of a neglected Ethiopian 13 - year - old girl who died of hypothermia and malnutrition in the U.S. to justify their new ban on international adoptions.

According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts household grocery bills could balloon by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of markets and causes prices to go up even more.»

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

The Turkish international was unable to register until the turn of the year due to a transfer ban imposed on Barcelona by UEFA.

The ping of aluminum won't be heard in Sydney, however; metal bats were banned from international competition in 1999 to suit the wood - wielding pro players who'll be in the Olympics for the first time this year.

Then in 1993 he was banned from competition for four years by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) after he failed a drug test.

The Turkish international joined the Catalan club last summer, but had to wait until January of this year before being registered to play, due to the transfer ban Barcelona were under.

Now the governing body of the World Cup have decided to take matters into their own hands and if found guilty, the 27 - year - old could be looking at a lengthy international ban.

His team - mate Arturo Vidal was caught up in a very similar incident back in 2015, and was given a two - year driving ban to go with a fine, but his place in the international squad was unaffected.

FIFA imposed a one - year ban on Atletico last year for signing dozens of youth players in breach of rules that prevent international child trafficking and luring youngsters from their home country.

The 27 - year - old has been suspended for nine international matches and has been given a four - month ban from all football - related activities by FIFA.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

Former world No 1 Maria Sharapova has been banned for two years by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after failing a drug test at this year's Australian Open.

A year after a massive protest at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport in opposition of Trump's controversial travel ban, more than 150 people marched down Montgomery Street on Monday afternoon.

Companies in Europe could import thousands of tonnes of banned or restricted ozone - destroying compounds this year because of a loophole in the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that protects the ozone layer.

South Korea belongs to the IWC, and last year joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which bans trade in whale meat.

Such knowledge is essential if African countries and their supporters hope to enforce the ban on international ivory trading enacted 16 years ago.

Bob Reilly of the International Plasma Products Industry Association says that any attempt by Europe to ban blood from paid donors would exclude products from the US worth $ 650 million a year, and «will be treated as an illegal trade barrier».

A U.S. federal court judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico, banned RIM from using the BBX name at a conference being held in Singapore this week after finding that software company Basis International Ltd. had registered and used the trademark for 26 years.

Though the exhibition ban on Ai's work in China ended last year, «it still comes as a surprise to me for an «international art biennale» -LSB-...] to remove a single artist for the reason of defending human rights and freedom of speech,» Ai wrote on his Instagram.

Last year, some 24 tons of ivory was seized around the world — the product of an estimated 2,500 elephants — making it the worst year for elephant poaching since an international ban on commercial ivory trading began in 1989, according to Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network.

Yet despite eBay's announcement last year of a new global policy banning ivory sales across international borders, ivory sales in the United States appear to have drastically increased.

Earlier this year at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama, South Korea had announced plans to kill whales under the guise of science, by exploiting a loophole to the ban on commercial whaling.

The rejection of the listing appears to contradict NOAA's push to ban all international trade of Atlantic bluefin at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Speciinternational trade of Atlantic bluefin at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SpeciInternational Trade in Endangered Species last year.

The U.S. and other International Whaling Commission (IWC) member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whaling ban.

In March, the transition government, which seized power during a military coup last year, passed a decree banning logging and trade in rainforest hardwoods, including rosewood, following widespread international condemnation of timber trafficking.

A relic of «70s - era energy scarcity, the ban was rendered obsolete by the American energy revolution, and studies show that maintaining it would have meant missing out on significant economic benefits — an estimated 300,000 American jobs and $ 5.8 billion per year in consumer savings by 2020 in gasoline, heating oil and diesel costs, according to ICF International.

The scientific and conservation communities have been calling for an international trade ban for years and Mathew told us last year about a report stating that Atlantic bluefin tuna could disappear in as little as three years if current catch levels were maintained.

Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they binternational trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they bInternational Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).

It took 13 years of bitter debate among governments, business leaders, scientists and concerned citizens before the world accepted his findings and moved to ban these chemicals through an international treaty, the Montreal Protocol, in 1987.

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In what reporter Gina Passarella in The Legal Intelligencer calls an example of the current economic climate's «uncharted waters» and «choppy tides,» Fordham Law School yesterday took the highly unusual and perhaps even unprecedented step of banning the international law firm Reed Smith, the 16th - ranked firm on this year's Am Law 100, from interviewing on campus for five years.

2015 was also the year that the artificial intelligence (AI) community firmly threw its substantial weight firmly behind the call to preemptively ban autonomous weapons, adding to the scientists and roboticists of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

This year, we will witness significant work done at the national and international level to increase understanding of the challenges posed by autonomous weapons as well as the number of states calling for a pre-emptive ban.

The call for users to scrap their Facebook accounts echoes last year's #DeleteUber campaign, which took off after the ride - hailing firm advertised that it would offer service free of surge pricing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport during a taxi strike protesting President Trump's travel ban.