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The rigidity and brutality of America’s behavior – resulting in many times more civilian deaths than occurred on September 11 – have blocked any useful intervention by countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or the United Arab Emirates.
This, too, would be a blow against Europe, because it would mean that any EU legislation – such as policies to disperse refugees now in Italy to other member countries – could be blocked by a plebiscite.
True, NATO’s abuse of the UN Security Council mandate for regime change in Libya poisoned the atmosphere, and Russia’s cynical rhetorical appropriation of the language of protection in Georgia and Ukraine added fuel to the geopolitical fire that has tragically blocked meaningful action to protect people in Syria.
Part III of the blocked Constitutional Treaty is merely a compendium of the existing EU treaties, which – because these treaties will remain in force regardless of whether they are part of the new document – can be decoupled from the rest.
Unless we make a successful case for Europe (and for a different Europe), Euro-skeptic forces will gain ground and Europe’s decision-making processes will be blocked.
The new regulation should be blocked, at least until the Commission commits to put forward a serious proposal for the overhaul of the institutional setting of European competition policy.
With most credit pipelines already partly blocked, the shortage of corporate credit will become more severe as regulators finally force banks to embark on a proper mobilization of prudential capital and shrink balance sheets to less risky levels.
“Net nannies” – as China’s Internet censors are often dubbed – blocked sensitive articles less frequently.
Opposition activists were blocked from most campaigning, and often arrested, while Kremlin-controlled courts denied their complaints.
Such explanations included government intervention or a new sort of industrial organization, and unfair patent infringements by the new producers who copied products and then blocked off their own markets from import competition.
Economic deterioration in Bangladesh would only worsen inter-communal tensions and provide a fertile breeding ground for jihadis, but the reforms needed to head off decline are often blocked by political infighting and opposition boycotts.
Blocked in their efforts to change the law through consultation, Hong Kong's people have taken to the streets.
This behavior culminated in 1862, when the legislature blocked a university president’s appointment.
One of Pakistan’s first actions after the Peshawar school attack was to approach Ghani’s government and ensure that Afghan authorities blocked the escape routes of those involved in planning and executing it.
Moreover, after the 2010 mid-term elections, a hostile Republican-controlled House of Representatives blocked his initiatives.
This outcome reflects domestic political polarization in the United States and the complexity of regional interactions in Europe, which have blocked comprehensive and balanced policy approaches.
A far more critical group in any society are those who have begun to move forward to new conditions, but then find their path blocked.
In the future, close cooperation between Germany and France will more than ever form the old and new center of gravity in a blocked EU.
Arafat used his negative power and blocked a settlement, but he couldn’t predict the consequences.
Such groups work politically to bring benefits to their members, but the benefits can come at the expense of the general welfare – and in India they have blocked the development of low-skilled industries and high-quality infrastructure.
As political moderates have been pushed out, policy gridlock has worsened, with presidential initiatives routinely blocked by congressional Republicans, even when such proposals were consistent with Republican ideas.
It was the first time in history that a country was willing and able to pay its creditors, but was blocked by a judge from doing so.
Racial politics thus blocked the emergence of class politics, which would have brought poor whites and poor blacks together to demand more public services paid for by higher taxes on elite whites.
As the EU’s Russia policy is blocked by the Polish government’s intransigence, Russia blithely continues to sign more bilateral treaties with individual EU member states, most recently with Greece and Bulgaria.
In fact, US regulators recently blocked Alibaba’s attempt to acquire MoneyGram, citing national-security concerns.
Indeed, Brown, for whom America remains “Britain’s most important bilateral relationship,” recently blocked his foreign secretary, David Miliband, from delivering a speech that he considered excessively pro-Europe.
With market entry blocked, license owners face little pressure to hold down fares, and the officials who allocate licenses are well placed to collect votes or bribes.
With economic privileges doled out in a way that blocked the emergence of independent entrepreneurs that might eventually challenge the autocrats’ control, favored firms were able to acquire virtual monopolies over entire liberalized economic sectors.
Investments with significant anti-competitive effects must be modified or blocked.
Overwhelming empirical evidence (provided in large part by the World Bank, a place keen on the idea of aid) proves that the development of the poorest countries is blocked, primarily, by government inefficiency and the corruption.
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