They ordered him to give the Kaiko Maru free passage, and he reluctantly complied.
After the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Pakistan gave free passage to supplies for the coalition soldiers.
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"Thai tycoon Charoen has backed down and handed Heineken a free passage to takeover APB, " said Justin Harper from IG Markets in Singapore in a note to clients.
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For instance, the Law of the Sea Treaty would severely constrain America's ability to protect its security and economic interests by establishing a new global bureaucracy to oversee territorial disputes, free passage, and exploitation of seabed resources.
Pate said the Freemen want a "guarantee of free passage" for one or two of their members to leave the compound and help set up a "common law grand jury" to determine if they have broken any laws.
Among them: the passage of free trade deals with Colombia and South Korea.
The common ground of which Republicans speak so warmly is precariously small: passage of free-trade deals, reduced red tape for small business, and tweaks to how unemployment insurance and infrastructure money is doled out.
His offence was meeting Colombian officials to discuss the passage of a free-trade agreement that Mrs Clinton opposes.
And hopefully we will see passage of the free trade agreements and TAA, and enjoy the benefits that will come from that.
The AFL-CIO and other groups have tangled with the White House on a host of issues over the past years, beginning with Clinton's efforts to secure passage North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and permanent normalization of trade relations with China this past year.
We are already hard at work on our efforts to champion the passage of smoke-free legislation in Texas next year and are hopeful about its chances.
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Bush Calls for Passage of Colombia, Panama Free Trade Agreements.
The president triumphed with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but it came only over loud protest from within his party, and with near-unanimous support of congressional Republicans.
In addition to everything else, as political analyst and commentator Michael Barone recently observed, passage of all four pending free-trade pacts will provide 125 million potential customers for U.S. manufactured products.
In his final push to win passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, the president accused labor unions of "running roughshod" over the facts in trying to stir up opposition.
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First Phil Dowson went on a barrelling run and then, in a passage of play that epitomised the free-flowing nature of the game, James Simpson-Daniel broke from deep for Gloucester before Saints lock Courtney Lawes stole the ball and fed Bruce Reihana.
With the passage of the Dominican Republic Central American Free Trade Agreement, Haiti has become even more competitively disadvantaged.
Christa Markwalder, a lawmaker from the pro-business Free Democratic Party, said she didn't think passage of the initiative would lead to an exodus of companies from Switzerland but would attract attention from other countries studying corporate-governance policies.
It provocatively points out that the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA), now set for passage by the U.S. Congress, will soon put Japan at a further disadvantage to its arch-rival, a situation which would only be remedial by accession to the TPP.
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Congress finally acknowledged defeat in 1862 with the passage of the Homestead Act, which gave settlers free federal land if they cultivated it for five years.
Yes, as Frost's passage acknowledges, the cause of unfettered markets and free trade is meeting resistance after the upheavals of globalization--many of them both painful and unnecessary--over the last decade.
But West told BBC Sport Online that the German side wanted him to sign a new three-year deal, but that he felt he needed to "take a new passage" and was leaving the club on a free transfer at the end of the month.
While several signs point to passage of the Latin American deals, the pending South Korean free trade agreement, hatched at the eleventh hour earlier this month, will be tougher to get through Congress.
President Bill Clinton plans to meet with economic and political advisors this afternoon to discuss a revised administration plan to push for House passage of legislation granting the president fast-track authority to negotiate free trade deals.
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Jim Bonham, a lobbyist for Steptoe and Johnson and a former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program and the Employee Free Choice Act will be other Democrat priorities.
Yet protectionism is on the rise, and that destructive sentiment is jeopardizing passage of two important--and for the U.S. very favorable--free trade agreements: one with Colombia, the other with Peru.
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