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The Children of Gebelawi ( 1959, also known as " Children of our Alley ") one of Mahfouz's best known works, has been banned in Egypt for alleged blasphemy over its allegorical portrayal of God and the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, until the ban was released in 2006.
* 1919 to 1932 in Finland ( called kieltolaki, " ban law ")
This has led to significant setbacks for the Soviet science, notably in biology due to ban on genetics ( see " Lysenkoism ") and in computer science, which drastically influenced the Soviet economy and technology.
On the basis of these and media reports, FIRE then assigns each institution a color code: green (" no serious threats to free speech "), yellow (" some policies that could ban or excessively regulate protected speech ") or red (" at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech ").
The state-owned petroleum companies that are common in oil-rich developing countries ( such as Aramco in Saudi Arabia or PDVSA in Venezuela ) are examples of government monopolies created through nationalization of resources and existing firms ; the United States Postal Service is an example of a coercive monopoly created through laws that ban potential competitors such as UPS or FedEx from offering competing services ( in this case, first-class and standard ( formerly called " third-class ") mail delivery ).< sup > 1 </ sup >
If an unambiguous marker is needed, the particle " ban " ( from " bande ") is often placed before the noun.
") This ban, which was only lifted in 1904, was disregarded by the Knygnešiai, the Lithuanian book smugglers, who brought Lithuanian publications printed in the Latin alphabet, the historic orthography of the Lithuanian language, from Lithuania Minor, a part of East Prussia, and from the United States into the Lithuanian-speaking areas of Imperial Russia.
In 2005, the Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia revoked the ban, passing Cannibal Holocaust with an R18 + rating ( with the consumer advice " High level sexual violence, high level violence, animal cruelty ") for the uncut print.
* 2003 – Tanzverbot ( Schill to Hell ) (" Dance ban ")
Skeptics argue that unfounded fears about an imminent or eventual gun ban, military coup, internment, or U. N. invasion and occupation are rooted in the siege mentality of the American militia movement but also an apocalyptic millenarianism which provides a basic narrative within the political right in the U. S., claiming that the idealized society ( i. e., constitutional republic, Jeffersonian democracy, " Christian nation ", " white nation ") is thwarted by subversive conspiracies of liberal secular humanists who want " Big Government " and globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order.
Its key provisions were 1 ) a ban on unrestricted (" soft money ") donations made directly to political parties ( often by corporations, unions, or wealthy individuals ) and on the solicitation of those donations by elected officials ; 2 ) limits on the advertising that unions, corporations, and non-profit organizations can engage in up to 60 days prior to an election ; and 3 ) restrictions on political parties ' use of their funds for advertising on behalf of candidates ( in the form of " issue ads " or " coordinated expenditures ").
The term ban is still used in the phrase banski dvori (" ban's court ") for the buildings that host high government officials.
In several countries the adherence to hijab ( an Arabic noun meaning " to cover ") has led to political controversies and proposals for a legal ban.
The reasons for the ban are mainly the alleged health risks of performance-enhancing drugs, the equality of opportunity for athletes, and the exemplary effect of " clean " (" doping-free ") sports for the public.
* Balinese language ( ISO 639 alpha-3, " ban ")
** Dou ban sauce ( la dou ban jiang 辣豆瓣醬, la dou jiang 辣豆醬, dou ban jiang 豆瓣醬 ), (" la " is " spice ", " dou " is " bean ", " ban " is " piece ", and " jiang " is " sauce ") originates from Szechuan cuisine in which chilis are used liberally.
This technique previously had been widely used in Hollywood movies ( to circumvent the Production Code's ban on " sexual perversion ") and before that in Vaudeville.
Television station KBOI-TV raised these concerns when an unknown source ( registering under the name " Completely Anonymous ") registered a domain name homographic to its own to spread an April Fool's Day joke regarding the Governor of Idaho issuing a supposed ban on the sale of music by Justin Bieber.
The traditional name, from the Arabic phrase ra's ath-thu ' ban (" head of the serpent ") is less commonly written Rastaben.

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* The Acharonim ( literally the " lasts ") are the rabbis from roughly 1500 to the present.
The vmbo ( voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs ; literally, " preparatory middle-level applied education ") education lasts four years, from the age of twelve to sixteen.
They are aquatic insects whose immature stage ( called " naiad " or, colloquially, " nymph ") usually lasts one year in freshwater.
The festival officially starts the following Thursday at the Animal Showgrounds ( in recent years simply known as the " Festival Site ") and lasts for 4 days.
The innings lasts until the batting side is " all out " ( i. e., 10 of the 11 batting players are " out ") or all of the first side's allotted overs are used up.
Recently, Munnery has returned to radio, hosting Simon Munnery's Experimental Half Hour (" experimental in that it lasts an hour ") and " Simon Munnery Weakly Chats ' on Resonance FM.
The duplicate lasts only about a day, and the original person ( referred to in the book as an archie, from " archetype ", or " rig ", from " original ") can then choose whether or not to upload the ditto's memories.
The material used to make modern lasts must be strong enough to withstand the forces of mass production machinery, such as that applied by the pullover machines when bottoming the shoe, and must also be able to hold tacks ( known as " lasting tacks ") which are used to hold shoe parts together temporarily before the sole is added.
Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most ( in the case of Mehndi or " henna tattoo ") a couple of weeks.
Next step is middle school (" gimnazjum ") which lasts 3 years and it is also finished by writing compulsory exam.
Symphony No. 7 in G minor (" Athonite ") lasts for one hour, and is in three movements: I " Pilgrimage ", II " Ek Batheon " ( the Greek, Έκ βαθέον, meaning " from the depths ", or in Latin, " de Profundis ") and III FINALE " The Garden of the Panaghia ", referring to the Greek Orthodox monastic idea that the peninsula Mount Athos ( Άγιον Όρος, Agion Oros ) forms a garden for the all-holy one, the Theotokos, or Mother-of-God.
Both times the rejection is very short ; this time it lasts almost four episodes, before ( at the end of " Intervention ") Buffy learns that Spike is capable of great personal sacrifice on her behalf.

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The leader is only a spokesperson for the group when it has to deal with other groups (" international relations ") but has no inside authority, and may be violently removed if he attempts to abuse this position.
He was also called Agyieus ( ; Ἀγυιεύς, Aguīeus, from ἄγυια, " street ") for his role in protecting roads and homes ; and as Nomius ( ; Νόμιος, Nomios, literally " pastoral ") and Nymphegetes ( ; Νυμφηγέτης, Numphēgetēs, from Νύμφη, " Nymph ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ") in his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life.
The arithmetic mean of a variable is often denoted by a bar, for example ( read " x bar ") would be the mean of some sample space.
Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.
It may, in addition, send the case back (" remand " or " remit ") to the lower court for further proceedings to remedy the defect.
In the past, a defendant who refused to plead ( or " stood mute ") was subject to peine forte et dure ( Law French for " strong and hard punishment ").
: Precise instructions ( in language understood by " the computer ") for a fast, efficient, " good " process that specifies the " moves " of " the computer " ( machine or human, equipped with the necessary internally contained information and capabilities ) to find, decode, and then process arbitrary input integers / symbols m and n, symbols + and =
Altenberg ( German for " old mountain ") may refer to:
The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
Aspect ratios are mathematically expressed as x: y ( pronounced " x-to-y ") and x × y ( pronounced " x-by-y "), with the latter particularly used for pixel dimensions, such as 640 × 480.
" Hall of the Slain " i. e. " the Chosen Ones ") This heavenly abode, somewhat analogous to the Greek Elysium, is reserved for those brave warriors who die heroically in battle.
An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.
The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.
Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.
Galileo used smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttauiras for Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi (" I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form ") for discovering the rings of Saturn in 1610.
In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.
In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".
The form Agade appears in Sumerian, for example in the Sumerian King List ; the later Assyro-Babylonian form Akkadû (" of or belonging to Akkad ") was likely derived from this.
In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

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