1.   Although felons were denied handgun permits, they could have broken the law merely by getting gun-safety training at a firing range.

2.   And though a police department may initially deny a permit to a local resident, Connecticut has a state board specifically to hear appeals about denials.

3.   But for many laborers who have been denied permits to work in Israel, the prospect of Palestinian self-rule holds little hope for improvement in daily life.

4.   City officials have said they denied the permit because the neighborhood cannot safely accommodate the one million participants the organizers had said they expected.

5.   He said the Interior Department already had the authority to deny mining permits if the operation did not comply with laws regarding clean air and water.

6.   In an interview, Hess said the final decision was made Thursday, when the mayor announced that the permit had been denied.

7.   It also allows states to deny permits to new landfills and incinerators not in county solid waste plans.

8.   Mike Tyson was denied a permit by a zoning inspector in Southington, Ohio, to keep two tiger cubs and one lion cub on his estate.

9.   One Mississippi zoning ordinance denied a permit for an Islamic Center in an area where there were Christian churches.

10.   Palestinians said the trouble began when hundreds of laborers who had been denied entry permits had stoned the soldiers.