But it appears the Administration will block Taiwan's entry into the WTO until after Beijing is admitted.
Clearly, a Security Council resolution is not required for the Palestinians to engage in the sort of activities that Netanyahu has just capitulated to the Obama administration to block.
The Bush administration rejected the block-grant proposal but agreed to a capped allotment which in this case generally amounts to the same thing fixing for five years the amount the federal would be obligated to give the state.
The Obama administration could sue to block the legal markets from operating, on the grounds that actively regulating an illegal substance conflicts with federal drug law.
This is precisely what occurred when Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to block Obama administration appointments unless money was provided for a harbor dredging project in his home state.
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The bottom line is simple: No other nation on earth capable of fielding the Airborne Laser, the F-22 and the other advanced weapons now on the Obama administration's chopping block would willingly abandon them.
The first risk is that Republicans will become so furious with Obama's use of this tactic that any chance of bipartisanship will disappear and in future Republicans will be even more willing to use dilatory tactics to block the administration's priorities.
The Clinton administration was already struggling to block the proposed Taiwan Security Enhancement Act.
Block grants restore administration back to statehouses, but continue the programs nationwide.
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The U.S. administration has warned it may block an international donors' conference tentatively set for late in May if it does not see progress.
The city teachers union on Friday threatened to go to court to block the Bloomberg administration's plan to replace staff at 33 troubled schools as the city moved ahead with preparations to close the schools.
The order stems from a decision by the Bush administration earlier this year to block the release of almost 70, 000 pages of confidential communications between President Ronald Reagan and his top advisers, that the Reagan library wanted to make public.
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Ben Wizner says the administration is asking the judge to block the case because it might reveal state secrets.
The administration had earlier proposed providing temporary block grants to states to help cover the drug costs for elderly residents, but lawmakers rejected that plan.
But now this administration is asking a court to block the release of any photographs, saying that it would jeopardize citizens in the United States and troops.
And what seems to me and other members of the administration to be the principal stumbling block is the commitment, the die-hard commitment on behalf of congressional Republicans, to even consider asking millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit more to deal with our deficit challenges.
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She called security the essential "building block" of the agreement the administration is trying to nail down and said "there has to be a lot of effort" by the Palestinians to back up promises to combat terrorism.
But in two recent cases the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was not swayed by big pharma's attempts to block copycat drugs.
It's been used once in the last 12 years, but some Democratic lawmakers have said they may employ it to block the endangered species rules and other midnight regulations by the Bush administration.
If Congress makes a decision that they are going to try to block the opening of a new facility, it potentially constrains what our administration can do.
But I then traveled up to the Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, a largely Tajik area, and there people were voting in significant numbers, not least because the Tajiks are a minority, want to, try to acquire a block of power in parliament to counterbalance what they say is a Pashtun-governated Karzai administration in Afghanistan.
He is one of several parties interested in a block of shares former Rangers chairman Chris Wright agreed to free up when the club came out of administration last year.
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