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That this leaf -presented to the parents of the bride to ensure permission for her hand in marriage, thrown into the air before journeys to ensure a safe return, buried in the ground by farmers to ensure plentiful harvests, burned at the cornerstones of new houses to ensure good luck within them, laid on piles of stones dedicated to Pachacamac to ensure safe passage through the mountains, and so on and so on - could have been banned beggars belief.

Inca ordered the mine shafts to be sealed, and banned any references to mercury in public.

This was not good enough for Wiley: he wanted the drink banned outright.

He launched a vendetta against the company and eventually managed to get the drink banned by the US Army in 1907, on the basis that it contained a vast amount of cocaine and as much alcohol as beer.

When the Pure Food and Drug Act had been passed in 1906 the authorities were already confused, drafting a law that ensured that coca wines and other preparations containing the leaf were banned, while apparently forgetting that cocaine itself could be bought over the counter at any chemist in theUnited States.

He was a biologist banned from Brazil for black-market profiteering and for crimes against the indigenous people.

United States to the ranks of Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, China, and Congo, which had already banned the practice, or publicly disavowed it.

Court banned, as unconstitutional, only school-sponsored and school-organized readings of the Bible in which all students must participate.

He wanted to see all legislation that banned the teaching of evolution declared unconstitutional.

Elected as a congressman from Massachusetts, before John Paul II banned priests and nuns from holding political office, Drinan was a tireless advocate for peace, for the poor, and for social justice.

The Saudis mobilized their armed forces, began training volunteers, broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France, banned the refueling of their ships in Saudi ports, and embargoed oil shipments to both countries.

So he was not banished, but to appease his daughter-in-law, the King banned his poetry and had every extant copy of his work destroyed.

I see now why my father banned the writings of such self-proclaimed sages as your Shorvi Nirienne.