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The issue went to Turkey’s highest court, which annulled the parliamentary vote, effectively blocking Gul’s candidacy, resulting in Erdogan’s decision to call an early election.
A bonus here is that Japanese and Indian interest in the Syrian peace process could spur China to play an active role in reaching, rather than blocking, a solution.
Moreover, in countries where Google is criticized for blocking access to information, it points out the information’s absence when something is blocked – letting people know that it exists but that they can’t have access to it.
This allows for the flexibility needed to address structural challenges at the local level, thereby preventing them from blocking growth.
Italy is blocking a European Union decision to bribe Turkey to keep refugees from crossing over into Greece on their way to Germany, Sweden, or other northern European countries.
Meanwhile, the unwarranted blocking and filtering of Web sites has grown more common in many countries, as has aggressive surveillance of Internet users.
With increased membership, the enlarged EU will move towards greater unanimity, which makes decision-making even more difficult, and increases the likelihood of blocking coalitions of members.
Following this approach, the EU's Structural and Regional Funds must be changed before Eastward enlargement takes place because, after it does, the new East European members will be able to forge a blocking minority.
The war has added immensely to this segmentation and fragmentation by blocking traffic on the Danube and by destroying international road and bridge links.
Their technical functions include blocking overseas Web sites, filtering content and key words on Web pages, monitoring email and Internet cafes, hijacking PC’s, sending out viruses, and inter-connecting with the monitoring systems of the Public Security Bureaus.
The online filtering technology is capable of blocking or intercepting the emails of the 80 million or so “Net citizens” in China.
That is why they have been blocking Obama’s more liberal nominee, Merrick Garland, since March.
Tanzania’s High Court has issued a temporary injunction blocking the new regulations; nonetheless, the government is still getting its way.
Here, few students would condone blocking technological progress.
A kleptocracy of government officials, their families, and well-connected businessmen has colonized the Chinese state and is intent on blocking any reforms that might threaten their privileged status.
This provoked such bad publicity that the police backed off, while still blocking the road to the new settlements.
On the international level, Serbia – with strong support from Russia – is actively engaged in blocking Kosovo’s accession to the United Nations and other global or regional organizations.
High levels of inequality are also correlated with the possibility of political capture by elites who defend their interests by blocking egalitarian reforms.
No medical or technical obstacles are blocking us from eradicating preventable infectious diseases such as measles and polio.
Ireland’s recent move is good news but foot-dragging elsewhere – not least by Germany – is blocking the return of confidence.
And demonstrators have gone to great – sometimes destructive – lengths to be heard, blocking roads, occupying factories and government buildings, and sabotaging water and electricity infrastructure.
The US is also blocking the world’s path toward an international rule of law for debt and finance.
The Global Ocean Commission urges the remaining 40% of the WTO’s members – and especially the biggest players currently blocking this process – to accept the relatively modest proposals on the table.
The process picked up momentum late last year, after hackers leaked thousands of e-mails from a top British research facility showing that some of the world’s most influential climatologists had been trying to disguise flaws in their work, blocking scrutiny, and plotting together to enforce what amounts to a party line on climate change.
Should the UK leave, the share of the liberal bloc’s vote in the Council would fall to just over 25%, reaching about 34% with Germany – just short of a blocking minority.
But they knew that they could not improve their product faster than engineers could improve theirs, and thus that blocking the spread of tractors would be impossible.
These weapons included asset freezes and blocking rogue banks’ access to international finance.
The US, especially, missed opportunities to integrate both countries into a single world system, by rebuffing reforms of the International Monetary Fund that would have strengthened China’s decision-making influence, and by blocking Russia’s overtures for NATO membership.
France is blocking the acquisition of French utilities by the Italian electricity company Enel.
By providing steadfast support to the Assad regime and blocking measures that would bring war criminals to justice, Putin shares with Assad culpability for the largest-scale atrocities in the world today.
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