31.   The ban came under pressure from the United States.

32.   The chemical weapons ban had come up against opposition from communists and other hardliners who dominate the Duma.

33.   The ban came after a brutal battle between fans in March of last year left an Ajax supporter dead.

34.   The ban came after two boys, Temba Chhiri Sherpa and Arabind Timilsina, failed to climb Everest.

35.   The ban comes a week after a private radio station aired an interview with a rebel commander who was rumored to have been killed.

36.   The ban comes after the discovery of a mealybug which is affecting plantations in Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.

37.   The ban comes amid an escalating trade dispute between the two countries over export subsidies for airplane makers.

38.   The ban comes because of the high level of cancer-causing dioxin detected in poultry and eggs from Belgium, the official said on condition of anonymity.

39.   The ban comes one day after Italian investigators began looking into allegations of illegal drug use in Serie A.

40.   The ban came after Britain announced a possible link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, and the fatal, brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.