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Owing to the name dispute, Greece has blocked the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (a provisional reference used since 1993) from joining the EU and NATO.
Although All4Syria's Internet site was recently blocked for unspecified reasons, the newsletter continues to be circulated and Mr. Abdul Nour moves in his usual circles unmolested.
It is the effort to build relations of cooperation and exchange to replace a centuries-old legacy of conflict; it is the economic growth and political development of an entire region whose potential has been blocked by the last remaining vestiges in Europe of National Communism.
For example, the Democracy and Freedom Web site has been either temporarily shut down or blocked 43 times in three years.
Few want to invest in a market where the government can change the rules of the game at any time, especially if they have had first-hand experience of being blocked from trading at a crucial moment.
In India, the Communist Party, a small (but important) member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ruling coalition, has blocked the agreement.
In 2001, during his first 100 days in office, Bush blocked or overturned many laws and regulations protecting the environment, and he put a definitive end to American participation in the Kyoto Protocol.
Scientists worldwide agree that GM is merely a refinement, or improvement, over less precise and predictable genetic techniques that have been used for centuries, but this exquisite new means to develop plants with higher yields and innovative traits will be blocked by the disincentive of unnecessary regulations.
This seems to be symptomatic of the country's state of mind: it is blocked.
And he has launched his initiative without waiting for approval from ECB and EU officials, who blocked an earlier “bad bank” plan under German pressure.
Many thousands of Web sites challenging establishment interests and deploring post-coup machinations have been blocked.
In any case, with so little confidence in the financial system, and credit constrained by concerns about falling housing prices, the usual transmission channels from the policy rate have been blocked.
A worthwhile effort could have been blocked, or President Barack Obama’s Democratic administration could have been compelled to be more generous to American corporations, in order to pick up needed votes from Republicans.
Time and again, vetoes or threats of vetoes by the permanent members of the UN Security Council have blocked action.
The idea of a single European air traffic control area was blocked because of a dispute between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar; proposals for liberalisation of gas and electricity supply were resisted by France, which promotes the public service advantages of public sector utilities.
Both countries were required to deposit 10% of the expected oil income in a blocked foreign account intended for future generations.
Moreover, private firms are blocked from entering SOE-dominated, capital-intensive, and high-end service industries.
Amid Trump’s initial moves to “shake up” Washington, DC, including a five-year lobbying ban and approvals of pipelines that President Barack Obama had blocked, he has made some serious – and avoidable – mistakes.
Relief agencies are blocked from operating where they are needed most.
While a two-state solution has long been the objective for a negotiated settlement, it is time to acknowledge that, two decades after the failure of the Oslo Accords, the current pathway to statehood is blocked.
It is that we have blocked out sensible solutions through an alarmist panic, leading to bad policies.
The overland “silk road,” for example, will reduce China’s reliance on sea-lanes, which can be blocked or disrupted, especially at the Strait of Malacca.
For years, China has also blocked meaningful sanctions against Burma.
So, why would any future creditor who benefits from an orderly restructuring vote for it if its new claims can be blocked by even a single holdout creditor?
At the World Trade Organization’s meeting Cancun in 2003, the developing countries stood together and blocked efforts to forge a trade agreement that was almost as unfair as the previous Uruguay round, under which the poorest countries actually became worse off.
Judges have temporarily blocked some aspects of the executive order – for example, those detained on arrival in the US under the order may not be deported; but it will be some time before the courts resolve all the questions the new prohibitions raise.
In Europe where US reticence had blocked the Bosnia peace-plan negotiated by the Europeans, Washington fell in line, investing its power, and even its soldiers to secure the Dayton Accords.
Twitter is largely blocked by China’s “great firewall” (GFW), which prevents Chinese people from accessing certain sites.
At the same time, political participation remained blocked by the previous generation, which never intended to give up power voluntarily.
Xi knows the obstacles that blocked the implementation of his initiatives during his first term, and he is committed to overcoming them.
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