The most severe restriction was a virtual ban on changing tires during a caution flag.

The Federal welfare bill would impose a virtual ban on food stamps and other Federal benefits for most noncitizens.

They also assert that new security measures, including more police and a virtual ban on new handgun sales, should deter criminals.

A virtual ban on fishing for striped bass along the East Coast was needed to allow that species to recover.

As a result publishing houses have imposed a virtual ban on quotations from unpublished material in biographies because of the perceived legal risks.

The result was that exclusion from the Union meant a virtual ban on publication.

The rules announced today involve not just censorship of some reports or restrictions on news gathering, but a virtual ban on press coverage itself.

So out go the union's limits on roller widths and the virtual ban on paint sprayers.

The case was a particular embarrassment for Japan, which has prided itself on its virtual ban on arms trading.

Former president Joseph Estrada decried arrangement, saying that it is a virtual "ban" on common candidates.