1.   A recently proposed federal ban on feeding animal protein to animals is encouraging, writes Rhodes, but has too many loopholes.

2.   An example of how Bristow would like to use leverage is the federal ban on smoking on domestic airline flights.

3.   And even if no organization steps forward to challenge the federal ban in this case, the argument has already been joined.

4.   And Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said he is reviewing an existing federal ban on CIA-sponsored assassinations overseas.

5.   At the time, government agents said an informant had tipped them that the bullets were made in China and imported in violation of a federal ban.

6.   Because Black Rhino bullets are made of carbon-based plastics called polymers instead of metal, they sidestep the current federal ban on armor-piercing bullets.

7.   Because of the federal funding ban, most of the current work on embryonic stem cells is being paid for by companies hoping to cash in on the results.

8.   Before that, investors were afraid that any money put into the nascent field might be wiped out by a federal ban on all embryonic research.

9.   A federal ban would not necessarily end the research.

10.   A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday struck down as unconstitutional a federal ban that had kept some casino advertising off Houston televisions and radios.