1.   The government has extended the ban on the import of beef until June.

2.   This coincided with a change that extended the ban on share buy-ins to companies domiciled elsewhere.

3.   Extending the ban to wedding rings, in the interests of safety, say the company, has upset some workers.

4.   But councillors stopped short of extending the ban to land which is leased by tenant farmers.

5.   -- The FAA extended a ban on crop duster planes another day in response to FBI concerns of a possible biological or chemical terrorist attack.

6.   A landscape littered with those memories meets lawmakers now as they decide whether to extend that ban on taxing electronic commerce.

7.   A revised directive, issued in February of this year, extended the ban on personal staff employment to civilian D.O.D. workers.