1.   The government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad.

2.   Ecuador announced a ban on fishing for shrimps, while Brazil stepped up screening and monitoring at its rivers and at its border with Peru.

3.   The Laotian government has announced a ban on all logging and timber exploitation in an effort to protect its fast-diminishing forests.

4.   The Argentine government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad.

5.   The Vietnamese Prime Minister, Vo Van Kiet, has announced a ban on the export of all raw and sawn timber in an effort to conserve forests.

6.   Before the ban was announced, U.S. citizens with prescriptions for the drug were allowed to bring a limited supply into the country.

7.   Before they attend, they should announce the ban of one literary item.

8.   Britain announced the ban earlier this month, citing scientific advice that material contaminated with the disease could reach the human food chain through bone marrow.

9.   California has already announced a ban on the fuel.

10.   He asked the National Rifle Association to cancel its convention there, too, and school officials announced a ban on trench coats.