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.

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In essence, the PacBio machine could become a powerful molecular microscope that allows researchers to, for instance, watch drugs block enzymes and use that information to build better ones.

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The idea, for instance, that we should block millions from moving here and vastly bettering their lives because there may be a small statistical impact on some subset of us.

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The Germans and French object, for instance, to recent decisions by the commission to enforce competition policy and block subsidies.

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And based on the resources that it would take in this instance to get enough equipment, manpower or what have you to fully block off that route while we were having this emergency, they did not necessarily think made sense at that time given, again, how many people were also trying to get home.

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