The authorities have frozen the company's bank accounts and barred Yukos from selling assets to pay the bill.

Chinese authorities initially barred photographs of the specimen from publication.

Chinese authorities barred American monitors from the crash site for five hours, purportedly for their own safety.

As a result, the authority barred the company from future work.

And, after the second, starting in June 1986, the authorities barred him from returning.

The authorities barred all civilian air and road traffic in the area.

Airline officials said last night that federal authorities had barred them from disclosing the names of the victims.

Soon after, he moved into a hotel room for 10 weeks because the authorities barred any contact between him and his daughter.

The authorities barred al-Nuqaydan from writing or traveling abroad.

During most of the last two days, Russian authorities have barred people from the hospitals.