6 sentences with “ban”

The UN recently debated a permanent ban on all driftnet fishing, which the Cousteau Society, of course, strongly supported.

The main exception was Brazil, which was hugely profitable and imported staggering numbers of slaves (Brazil was also the last state to ban slavery, in 1888).

The official ban on icons lasted until 843, more than a century, before the emperors reversed it (it was an empress, named Theodora after Justinian's famous wife centuries earlier, who led the charge to officially restore the icons).

Despite the British ban on the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, the existing African-American slave population was maintained through natural reproduction and remained locked in a position of total legal servitude, enforced with brutal violence.

Thus, in 1526 Charles V allowed the German princes to choose whether or not to enforce his ban on Lutheranism as they saw fit, in the hope that they would continue to offer him military aid - he tried unsuccessfully to revoke this reluctant toleration in 1529, but it was too late.

Because the vast majority of Spanish immigrants were men, even a formal ban on marriage between Spanish men and native women did not prevent the growth of a large "mixed" class of mestizos, the children of Spanish-American unions who were often recognised as the legitimate children of the former.