The government immediately took the report's advice to ask the Competition Commission to investigate this market (though it did not block the merger).
Plus the federal government did the union bidding and sought to block the opening of the new Boeing Dreamliner factory in South Carolina.
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Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, and the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he did not think Republicans would block the nomination with a filibuster.
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Tevez and Rooney looked a dangerous combination, and Carson did well to block the Argentine as the pressure mounted.
In a briefing for MPs ahead of a backbench debate in the Commons later on Wednesday, Canon Killwick insisted that the opponents did not want to block women bishops but simply to ensure their own place in the Church.
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Yet the company never did anything substantial to try to modify or block the bill.
Agbonlahor drilled his shot into the side netting via the fingertips of Wiese after a fine pass by midfielder Michael Carrick, then the keeper did well to block a dipping free-kick by left-winger Downing.
The Blues did improve before the break and it took a brave block by Stephen Warnock to deny Drogba when he met Florent Malouda's pull-back from the left.
The losers in this drama also include Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Spain, which all did their level best to block the election.
Opening a Commons debate on the commission on 3 November 2011, Mrs Gillan told MPs she believed the current system - under which the Welsh government can only spend what it receives through an annual block grant from the UK Treasury - did not provide enough accountability for Assembly Members at Cardiff Bay.
She said they did not know they were dealing with maisonettes and did not know about escape balconies on the block.
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Well, I am told that the FSA did not feel it could block a deal that had so much support in Parliament.
Chris Swailes should have given the home side the lead with a close-range header but Zaluska did well to block with his feet and McLaughlin's header was deflected over from the following corner.
The dog walker told police he moved the first bag because he saw someone circling the block in a Dodge Charger and watching to see what he did with the bag, the law-enforcement source said.
One Direction is packing them in, but so did the Jonas Brothers, New Kids on the Block and the Bay City Rollers.
Republicans did propose block funding for Medicaid to begin stabilizing the national budget.
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Hitting that stoop did bring the Segway PR rep hoofing it down the block at a pretty good clip, though.
The key to the 1996 reforms was that the block grants to each state were finite, not matching, so the federal funding did not vary with the amount the state spent.
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Marshall again did well to race from his goal and block at the feet of Hartson.
Analyst Sweet predicts that White House opposition will block the reform, just as it did last year.
However, a senior US lawmaker said that the government should block future deals if they did not benefit US taxpayers.
And when they occasionally broke the shackles with a foray forward they certainly caused the odd flutter in the Tottenham defence, their best effort of the first half coming when Michael Dawson did well to bravely block from Gretar Steinsson's shot.
She did not block a debate, due in March, on enlarging the euro's rescue fund.
Paul Bosvelt offered Scotland another warning shot with a powerful 25-yard drive narrowly wide of the mark on 15 minutes, while Paul Lambert did well to block a fierce Roy Makaay volley.
Perhaps he did: he often complained of the artistic malady known as writer's block.
If there was a dedicated cycle path that pedestrians did not block, as well as dog walkers, this would be the best for all.
Leighton Baines then took advantage of decoy runs to break into the box and unleash a shot, which Aaron Hughes did well to block.
"I think you could really look on what these guys did during the last bit in the third period and overtime as a building block and you hope that they seize it, " Chiarelli said.
We should then block-grant Medicaid back to the states, as we did with the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children program in 1996, reaping similar savings.
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