Since 1982, the authorities - eager to preserve an international reputation as honest dealers with the foreign powers that provide financial aid - have outlawed the importation of rhinoceros horn.

After securing the abdication of Abdul Hamid II in April 1909, the new authorities levied taxes, outlawed guerrilla groups and nationalist societies, and attempted to extend Constantinople's control over the northern Albanian mountain men.

The Polish authorities outlawed the party on January 30, 1924 as one that causes threat to peace and order.

And ever since the German authorities outlawed the P.K.K. in 1993, he said, "there has been the fear that the violence would move onto the streets, become more diffuse."

The authorities there had outlawed "disruptive" protests at the end of 2001.

The other dimension is that the federal authorities in a move to solidify the unity of the Russian Federation, have lately outlawed any switch to Latin, or any other non-Cyrillic, alphabet.

In 1998, judicial authorities in Madrid outlawed the group, saying its candidates could not run in parliamentary elections because they had ties to ETA.

The authorities have outlawed it.

The authorities subsequently outlawed the group in December the same year.

The controversy has burned here for two years and seemed to reach a peak this summer when the authorities outlawed the use of the nets, which the fishermen say increase their catches of tuna and swordfish.