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- noun Plural form of
banning .
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Examples
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Sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA), American Booksellers Association, and a variety of other organizations, the week of events around the country celebrates intellectual freedom and spotlights books that have been targets of attempting bannings.
Boing Boing 2009
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The warnings will be followed by holings and thread bannings if needed.
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I think the bannings have really made it much nicer here.
Think Progress » Pawlenty completes global warming flip-flop, calls cap and trade a ‘disaster.’ 2010
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The United manager, villain du jour of most jours, is not the ogre to Murray that he appears to others, particularly those in the media perplexed by Ferguson's serial bannings and splutterings.
Relaxed Andy Murray finds a kindred spirit in Sir Alex Ferguson 2011
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The wave of bannings this week which was started by a Lahore court after a petition from an alliance of conservative lawyers over the Facebook group "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" and now includes YouTube and over 400 other sites is another step in the chipping away at the Pakistan new media scene, which has been a vibrant and increasingly influential part of Pakistan society in recent years.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: Fear and Loathing: Or Why Pakistan Banned The 21st Century Virginia M. Moncrieff 2010
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Unlike Blizzard's RP servers, the private ones like this one can be as ruthless as they choose to be in dealing with people who don't adhere to their strict standards of what is or is not acceptable behaviour; they're not going to damage their stock price with mass bannings.
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The wave of bannings this week (which was started by a Lahore court after a petition from an alliance of conservative lawyers over the Facebook group "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" and now includes YouTube and over 400 other sites) is another step in the chipping away at the Pakistan new media scene, which has been a vibrant and increasingly influential part of Pakistan society in recent years.
Virginia M. Moncrieff: Fear and Loathing: Or Why Pakistan Banned The 21st Century 2010
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The list is bogus (books that have been subject to attempted bannings elsewhere),
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They feel that the bannings, which are announced every year, have degraded the Book Fair from a pioneering cultural event to a marginal affair.
Meedan: Protests against Censorship at Kuwait Book Fair Meedan 2010
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They feel that the bannings, which are announced every year, have degraded the Book Fair from a pioneering cultural event to a marginal affair.
Meedan: Protests against Censorship at Kuwait Book Fair Meedan 2010
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