The trade agreement and the banana accompanying measures were approved during the daily voting session on 11 December 2012, despite an attempt by the left-wing GUE group to block the agreement.
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The project stretched from Londonderry to Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, but it faced a legal challenge from the Alternative A5 Alliance (AA5A) - a group of farmers, landowners and supporters who sought to block work on the 53-mile stretch.
In the past week, the Motion Picture Association - a group representing film studios - successfully applied for a court injunction requiring BT to block access to an infringing website called Newzbin2.
Some lawmakers tried to block Blackstone Group 's (nyse: BX - news - people ) much anticipated initial public offering last week, citing investor protection and, in one case, homeland security.
Since a large majority of the MapleStory players are between the age of 18-29, with more than 40 percent being female, this group represents an important sample of this voting-block.
The commission threatened, for instance, to block the government's recent bail-out of Alstom, an engineering group, approving a rescue plan only after France agreed to last-minute changes.
So far, it is unclear whether they will fully back DaimlerChrysler: although they have in effect washed their hands of Mitsubishi, they might still block reforms such as aggressive job-cutting if they felt these might tarnish the group brand.
Americans for Prosperity, the Koch-funded Tea Party group, has lent support to his campaign to block the new bridge.
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Four separate columns of people marched from different parts of town, meeting up in a single group--10 people wide at times, stretching down the street for block after block.
Last month a group filed a class-action lawsuit against PayPal alleging, among other things, that the block on Checkout is illegal. (PayPal says it will vigorously fight the suit.) In another sign that PayPal has Google on its mind, it recently launched a payments and search advertising partnership with Yahoo!
When the offers arrived, the bid from the Johnson-Walter group was so much higher than the competing offers, it essentially took the franchise off the block almost instantly.
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