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He tightened legislation aimed at throttling civil society, pursued lawsuits against protesters, and blocked the activity of Alexei Navalny, a promising opposition politician.
Already, Trump has determined that Pakistan should no longer be paid for providing valuable services to American, NATO, and Afghan forces, and has even blocked a large payment to the country that was already due.
These marginal workers are predominantly immigrants and the children and grandchildren of former immigrants, whose social and economic integration is thus blocked, trapping them in increasingly violent suburban ghettoes.
Clearly, North Koreans who refuse to show deep sadness on occasions of public mourning risk serious trouble – children expelled from school, careers blocked, perhaps even time in a slave-labor camp.
With fiscal, monetary, and exchange-rate policies blocked, is there a way out of prolonged recession?
For five years, they have systematically blocked every attempt at a resolution emanating from the United Nations.
And if they tried to export more than allowed without paying the fine, their surplus exports would be blocked.
In the US, innovative market entrants are seldom blocked, and only if overwhelmingly justified by the public interest.
In all markets, when innovators can enter easily and are not blocked by unjustified regulations, everyone stands to benefit – eventually even those whose occupations are disrupted or displaced.
But India, blocked to its west by Pakistan, is increasingly looking east for trade and strategic partnerships.
When the medical-device industry was blocked from producing lucrative products like heart valves, owing to the lack of specialized firms to provide sterilization services, the government used incentives to attract such companies.
After all, it was the Republicans who had blocked assistance to those losing their jobs as a result of the globalization they pushed assiduously.
Such an outcome would not be surprising, given that US opposition (though in Congress, not within the Obama administration) blocked reforms, agreed in 2010, to increase China’s voting power within the IMF.
When potential refugees are blocked by offshore barriers, detained for excessive periods in unsatisfactory conditions, or refused entry because of restrictive legal interpretations, the protection of international law is lost.
Yet the political power of the gun lobby, which opposes limits even on assault weapons, has blocked the adoption of measures that would boost public safety.
“So what if the system is blocked; to reform it would not make any difference!”
Measuring the Internet for FreedomROME – Last year, during a wave of deadly political protests in Ethiopia, the government blocked more than 15 media websites and the smartphone chat application WhatsApp.
In Uganda, local groups used ooniprobe during last year’s general election, when the government blocked social media.
Ooniprobe’s network-measurement data not only confirmed the government’s action; it also uncovered which sites were blocked and the different methods used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement censorship.
In Thailand, ISPs have, in the last three years, blocked access to a number of sites that are perceived to be offensive toward the country’s royal family.
Why, for example, has an online dating site been blocked in Malaysia?
According to ooniprobe data, multiple Thai ISPs simultaneously blocked access to different types of websites – from news outlets to Wikileaks to pornography – indicating that they likely received vague orders from authorities.
Even in cases where governments announce official lists of blocked sites, they may leave some targets off.
Vimeo and Reddit, for example, were recently found to be blocked in some networks in Indonesia, even though the official ban on those sites was lifted more than two years ago.
OONI’s Web-Connectivity Test, for example, is designed to examine whether access to websites is blocked through DNS tampering, TCP/IP blocking, or a transparent HTTP proxy.
By establishing a framework of overlapping soft and hard obligations, the Paris accord evaded objections that had previously blocked progress.
Just as US President Donald Trump was touting the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office, a federal court, responding to a legal complaint brought by several jurisdictions, temporarily blocked his executive order to strip federal funding from “sanctuary” states and cities.
It would ignite an already incendiary part of the world, with the added risk of global economic collapse if the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth to one-third of the world’s oil passes, is blocked.
They were often the first to lose their jobs in the early 1990's, and they have been persistently blocked from reentering the labor force due to their often inadequate skills and pervasive discrimination.
On June 7, a hundred cars blocked roads in central Minsk to protest a 30% increase in fuel prices – a daring act in Europe's most formidable police state.
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