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The JCPOA blocked all of Iran’s major pathways to becoming a nuclear power, by preventing the country from reprocessing plutonium or enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.
Second, opponents eventually blocked his proposal for a national central bank.
However, so long as second- and third-generation minority citizens are taught that the only acceptable cultural identity is French, but are not in fact accepted as French – indeed, are blocked from enjoying the full rights of French citizenship – the Republican model will fuel alienation rather than democratic integration.
The move was blocked, partly by the same fear of multilateralism that held back the Thatcher government 30 years ago.
In July 1992, Slovak lawmakers blocked his reelection as Czechoslovak president.
During Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, Putin believed that the CIA was behind the widespread protests that blocked Viktor Yanukovych’s attempt to steal the presidential election.
Unfortunately, ECB officials’ recent statements may have reduced the pressure on governments to do those things, and, by reversing the decline of the euro’s value, may have blocked the market response that is needed to shrink current-account imbalances and boost GDP in the eurozone.
But the danger in a weakened democracy is not merely blocked legislation and ineffective government.
With multilateral talks floundering – the WTO’s Doha Round talks stalled again this summer, as India blocked implementation of the “Bali Package,” the modest agreement reached at last year’s ministerial conference – some of the WTO’s largest members, notably the US and EU, are pursuing bilateral and regional trade agreements.
This time around, however, at a November 2014 OPEC meeting, Saudi Arabia blocked a motion by other members to reduce production in response to falling prices.
Gerashchenko blocked all bank reforms ranging from restructuring, liberalization and privatization to deposit insurance.
The Assad regime is responsible for the highest number of civilian casualties by far, having carried out indiscriminate attacks in populated opposition-held areas, besieged entire populations, blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, and tortured and executed prisoners.
Microsoft’s contribution to Chinese political repression follows Yahoo’s role in the sentencing of a dissident reporter and Google’s decision not to display search results that are blocked by what has become known as the “Great Chinese Firewall.”
In fact, most international blog-hosting services are blocked in China, which provides a competitive boon to several hundred domestic blog-hosting services.
Over the past ten years, political and economic actors intent on preserving the status quo have blocked further democratic change and economic reform, condemning Mexico to move sideways, even as other emerging markets surge ahead.
Yet its cash-strapped government recently blocked the European Union from criticizing China’s human-rights record at the United Nations, because China provides critical investment, particularly from the China Ocean Shipping Company, known as COSCO, which in August 2016 acquired a majority stake in the port of Piraeus.
The adjustment that needs to take place is blocked.
Labour opposition makes every Brexit option almost certain to be blocked.
This March, Russia blocked a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the human-rights catastrophe in Syria.
Moreover, Africa’s weak states offer the least resistance as a substitute for traditional cocaine smuggling routes in Central America and the Caribbean, which are being blocked.
Many other countries remain blocked altogether, either by vetoes from within the EU, or by domestic hurdles.
In an effort to promote diversity and gender equality in the ECB, the European Parliament in 2012 blocked the appointment of Luxembourg’s Yves Mersch to the bank’s executive board.
If Singh’s new reform agenda is again blocked, perhaps it will be time for a more radical assessment.
If EU governments are able to strengthen central political institutions, enlargement may be successful; if not, it may be blocked.
It blocked India’s request to name Masood Azhar, the head of Jaish-e-Mohammed (a Pakistani terrorist group), to a United Nations Security Council blacklist, despite support for the move from the council’s 14 other members.
In some cases, such as Northern Nigeria, social resistance to the vaccine has blocked adequate coverage of the population.
The oracles of optimism predict that the PRI will be forced to enact the structural reforms that it has blocked time and again over the years.
But many professional women’s career advancement is systematically blocked should they choose this path.
Some countries, such as the Czech Republic, have blocked deals to share the burden fairly among European Union members, including through mandatory quotas.
But if the surplus country tried to exceed its export limit without paying the fine, its surplus exports would be blocked.
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