Mr. Bush and Republicans in Congress can ensure that the ban stays in force.

The ban stayed and was not lifted till the end of the July 2011.

But "promising" is exactly what it will remain as long as the Bush Administration's ban on Federal financing of fetal tissue research stays in place.

And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.

However, Austro-Hungarian authorities wouldn't give an inch - the ban on organized gathering stayed firmly in place.

If the ban had stayed in place, he could not have built on the site until now.

However this was reversed on appeal and the ban stayed.

All this was far from true, but the ban stayed.

The resulting 1985 federal ban on tunneling in the area stayed in effect for more than 20 years until it was repealed in 2007.

That result, which has greatly reduced gridlock around the region, could mean that the ban will stay in place well into this year.