11.   Bills to impose an outright ban on executions of the mentally retarded in Texas appear regularly in the state Legislature but have never been enacted.

12.   But an outright ban on just one kind of restaurant would probably be illegal.

13.   But he will support the outright ban.

14.   But Pat Lynch, a spokeswoman for Silver, said that the speaker would be seeking nothing less than an outright ban.

15.   But NATO has rejected the idea of an outright ban.

16.   But the outright Internet ban also delays any such diversion in favor of tightly produced Olympics, built around mostly U.S. athletes with star potential.

17.   But the Supreme Court has determined that the Constitution does not permit an outright ban on soliciting on private property.

18.   But the state constitution stops short of an outright ban on using taxpayer money to aid religious schools.

19.   Congress has never passed an outright ban because there is serious scientific doubt about how dangerous the substance is to humans.

20.   Democrats have generally favored a statewide vote on the issue and Republicans have wanted an outright ban.