11.   School officials had banned the armbands.

12.   State officials banned all fireworks for July Fourth because of the danger, and the stores simply closed.

13.   U.S. officials banned the potatoes last October after a disease was found on a Prince Edward Island field.

14.   U.S. officials banned the suits from the trials, saying they were not available to everyone, then reversed themselves after one manufacturer threatened to file a grievance.

15.   Belgian officials banned all commercial flights over Brussels and threw a ring of barbed wire barricades around the EU complex.

16.   Berlin officials had banned all demonstrations last weekend, fearing violence, but agreed to allow the funeral march to proceed.

17.   Burilkov said he was dismayed by Yugoslav justice when police officials banned him from the courtroom.

18.   But school officials banned them as offensive, and on Monday the student lost a Supreme Court appeal.

19.   Citing fears of neo-Nazi violence, city officials on Tuesday banned a funeral for a former Nazi death camp guard who published magazines denying the Holocaust occurred.

20.   City officials have banned street vendors from the taxi parks and have posted guards, said city public relations officer Simon Muhumuza.