Yes, this risk seems remote and impossible, just as until a month ago it was unimaginable that the federal government would sue an American company to stop it from using a factory it had already built because it was in a right to work state.
It is designed to stop medical progress, and it is already doing so.
So, in theory, civil adjudication could stop altogether, as it already has on one judicial circuit in Georgia.
They could decide to stop the trial if it has already proved more effective, if Vytorin appears more dangerous than Zocor, or if there is no hope that Vytorin will prove more effective.
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But it did stop the war and, fragile though it is, has already exposed the cynics as naive.
You can deny technology but you cannot stop progress that is already existing and it is home grown.
Sony has already announced that it will stop making optical drives itself.
But we might already have a way to stop it with a common item you can find in any sporting goods store: paintballs.
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By contrast, last month the administration, through the National Labor Relations Board, in an unprecedented move sued Boeing Corporation to stop it from using a manufacturing facility it had already built in South Carolina to produce its new 787 commercial aircraft.
Homeowners say it's already too late to stop their properties from being blighted.
But for federal authorities trying to put a stop to 3-D gun files, sharing it might already be too little, too late.
It has already spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to stop the smells.
Because the government knows that 25 percent of all cigarettes in Ireland are smuggled in already and cannot stop this classic expression of Irish anarchy, especially if it keeps adding profit potential for entrepreneurs of the streets.
It's tough enough to craft rules to stop all the bad things Microsoft has already done.
Some have been told that is impossible to stop the notices and been forced to pay up money they have already paid and hope it is refunded when their case is finally attended to, while others obtain varying hold times on the notices of 9 to 14 weeks and then live in fear that the collections will start again before their cases are settled.
In areas where Waste Management already handles trash pickup, it would be relatively easy for its crews to stop by the storm drains to clean out captured debris and change out filters.
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In some parts of the world this is already having impacts - and a Copenhagen deal could not stop those impacts, although it could provide funding to help deal with some of the consequences.
While the Israeli army had already issued warnings to soldiers not to reveal details of future operations, it now wants to stop them posting videos and pictures of themselves on the Internet.
Beijing has already felt the heat about it from various car companies, and last year Daimler managed to stop another Chinese car firm, CMEC from making an electric car that closely resembled its ubiquitous Smart car.
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