31.   But the law will not bar them from stamping the solicitations as pre-approved.

32.   But this year, with Voinovich barred by law from re-election and pursuing the Senate seat vacated by John Glenn, Taft had a clear shot at the governorship.

33.   But U.S. laws bar the sale of any computer, regardless of capacity, to a nuclear-weapons installation in Russia without prior federal approval.

34.   But U.S. election law bars such contributions.

35.   But U.S. exclusion laws barred some Chinese born abroad.

36.   California has adequate cash to pay its workers, but is barred by law from paying suppliers until it has a budget.

37.   Chiles was barred by law from serving a third term.

38.   Carlos Salinas hastily appointed Mario Ruiz Massieu to investigate the killing, even though Mexican law barred him from investigating a crime against a close relative.

39.   Church law bars divorce in all cases but allows for annulment, a process that essentially concludes a marriage considered invalid in the first place.

40.   Conflict-of-interest laws bar former officials of a federal agency for years from turning around and trying to persuade the agency to do something.