Bans in a sentence

The study analyzed state- and school district-level policies mandating soda bans and found that state bans were associated with significantly lower school soda availability but district bans showed no significant associations.

Bans on apps used by millions of Americans, for example, may implicate speech and First Amendment concerns in ways that bans on niche products used in critical energy infrastructure may not.

Bills in directly target transgender and nonbinary individuals through bathroom bans, restrictions on gender-affirming care, sports bans, and the criminalization of healthcare providers who support trans patients.

Republican candidates should stop endorsing all-out bans on abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother, or punishing women who obtain abortions in violation of new state bans, he said.

Theoretically, people in medical emergencies should be able to access the procedure even in states with bans – but doctors say that, in reality, these bans are so vaguely worded that they block doctors from helping sick patients.

Health care in states with abortion bans who specialize in high-risk pregnancies are leaving their practices out of fear of criminal prosecution, and states with bans saw a in applicants for OB-GYN residency in 2023, compared to 2022.

On the other hand, Harris presented abortion rights as the main focus throughout her campaign, pointing at the Republican nominee as a direct perpetrator of over 20 states’ abortion bans, referring to them as Trump's abortion bans during her speeches.

Since nonpregnant women don’t suffer the consequences of abortion bans, those bans don’t discriminate on the basis of sex.

As a result, most EU countries took individual decisions, ranging from 24-hour bans on travel from the UK (Belgium) to 11-day bans until the end of the year (the Netherlands).

Take the recent spate of early abortion bans, which have been commonly dubbed “heartbeat bills,” a term pushed by anti-abortion activists and Republican legislators and repeated endlessly in reporting about the bans, including by Jezebel.

The Coalition tweeted about the impending bans earlier in the week by telling players that it would be distributing bans ranging form a month to a year depending on how severe players’ quitting behavior was.

This prompted international bans on ivory imports, starting with the United States in June 1989, and followed by bans in other North American countries, western European countries, and Japan.

Academics who described their work as the first of its kind in England on the topic, produced the good practice guide after finding that while some care homes had alcohol readily available, others had blanket bans.

According to the Texas anti-abortion group’s website, 64 cities and two counties across the U.S. have so far passed similar abortion bans.

An amended complaint was filed Friday by parents of transgender kids against the state of Florida over legislation it passed two months ago that bans sex change surgeries, trans hormones and puberty blockers for minors.

And right now, librarians are taking on an old roleThey are defending the rights of readers and writers in the battles raging across the U.S. over censorship, book challenges and book bans.

Another 1,586 books have bans or restrictions already in place according to PEN America which focuses its activities on free speech and literature.

A protest broke out at Penrice Academy in St Austell on Friday, as “hundreds of students” demonstrated against a new school rule which bans pupils from going to the toilet during lessons.

A restraining order bans him from contacting his victim or going to Blenheim Drive, Bicester, until May 2025.

As Greg Sargent of the Washington Post points out, Iowa bans schools from stocking books with any "sex acts," without explaining what that means.