1.   The UK government has placed an official ban on the use of offal in animal feed and petfoods from any cattle at risk from bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

2.   Defying an official ban on demonstrations, protesters threw up barricades and lighted fires.

3.   Fifteen years ago, when the Marxist-Leninist vise had Saigon tightly by the throat, few Vietnamese dared disobey an official ban on talking with foreign visitors.

4.   The Turkish Consulate in Washington hesitated to say an official climbing ban was in place.

5.   There has never been an official ban on performing the works of Richard Wagner in Israel.

6.   A party must either disavow such statements made by members, or face an official ban if they stand by it.

7.   A party must either disavow such statements made by members, or face an official ban.

8.   Although the ruling did not authorize selling dog meat for human consumption, it opened up legal challenges to the official ban.

9.   Eleven Taiwanese who defied an official ban by sailing directly to China were indicted by prosecutors on the island of Kinmen Tuesday, the official Central News Agency reported.

10.   Farmers sold their wheat to shady firms that exported much of it despite an official ban.