1.   City laws therefore prevented the Mayor from firing his chief.

2.   That game was held at Los Angeles Coliseum, where California law prevented local college bands from performing at a professional event.

3.   The law prevents job discrimination against minorities and women.

4.   The law prevents the export of rare birds.

5.   Essentially, copyright law does not prevent this as long as the original program is not copied or adapted.

6.   In this way, the law of confidence prevents others from gaining benefit from the work of the person who accumulated the information in the first place.

7.   Although several large cities in other states have statutes that cap rent increases, Georgia law prevents local governments from establishing rent controls.

8.   An obscure Maryland law prevented the plaintiff from dropping charges once the case had been scheduled for trial.

9.   And anyway, she added, federal and state laws prevented her from keeping them in her house.