The Gates Foundation is the biggest malaria funder on the world block, but it's trying to cooperate with the other players as well.
Both the US and EU have since lobbied countries around the world to block Iranian oil imports.
Apple wants to own a generation of post-PC world users and block out their competitors until such time as they can present a higher-quality user experience than Apple.
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It is the world's biggest economic block: it accounts for more than a quarter of the world's GDP (at purchasing-power parity), compared with the Sinosphere's 15% and the Indosphere's 5.4%.
Some may also question whether the payment system is still, in today's world, a major block to new entry in banking.
These lists are then used by ISPs around the world in order to block access from those places to the wider net.
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On Monday, he spoke of the U.S.'s commitment to both defend Israel on the world stage and to block Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
After the attack on the World Trade Center, a block from AmEx headquarters, the plan was scrapped.
LONDON, England -- There is a new kid on the block in the world of portable listening devices -- the mp3blue jacket.
They listened to me - not because I was British, but because I represented the largest single economic block in the world of 475 million people.
You can achieve your work in far less than the 40 hours that is considered needed to complete every job in every position, in every office block in the world.
The bathtub was the 9-block area of the World Trade Center site at bedrock, that was protected by the slurry wall.
This issue has been the central stumbling block in the current world trade negotiations that are going on around the world--trade organization.
The Mail on Sunday and the Observer report on One Hyde Park, the world's most expensive residential block, which is in Knightsbridge, London.
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In preparing its citizens for the Year 2000, local governments and community organizations might consider the World War II-era "block captain" approach, said the committee's vice chairman, Sen.
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They have requested that the United States Trade Representative ask President Barack Obama to revoke the trade preferences Argentina now enjoys, and are lobbying to block its access to World Bank loans.
An EU-U.S. deal is just one building block of a more dynamic world economy.
Russia seems not to care that Western countries are now threatening to block its membership of the World Trade Organisation.
Regional sanctions are unlikely, but the United States may cut its bilateral aid, and block new loans from the World Bank and others.
To Uruguay's annoyance, Argentina is now trying to block a loan from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation to fund 9% of the plants' cost.
It has expressed its anger with Russia not by invoking sanctions like the cutting back of the G8 to the old G7 without Moscow or by seeking to block Russian entry into the World Trade Organization, but by promising to help reconstruct a ravaged Georgia.
But to kick Russia out of the G8 now, or to block its entry into the World Trade Organisation, as some have been urging, would merely make Russia even less helpful on big issues such as Iran, where its co-operation is needed more and more.
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These trade regulations block imports, respectively, when world prices fall below a pre-set threshold and when imports exceed expectations.
Since then, the two companies have locked horns in courtrooms around the world, in attempts to secure injunctions to block the sale and import of one another's products.
The ravine has 400m-high walls of sheer limestone, which block out the sun and silence the world outside.
When an old master's painting fetches tens of millions on the auction block, it makes headlines around the world.
Called Golden Gai (Golden Town), this scruffy low-rise block of six narrow laneways is a world away from the glitz of Tokyo.
In that scenario, says Free World Dialup's Pulver, a carrier could block service and effectively make its own VoIP product the only available option.
After all, Legos are THE official creative building block tool of, well, the world, having developed and spurred the minds of young builders and makers everywhere since before the X-Files.
And even if a sweet enough east-coast offer made him relent, New York's two existing major-league baseball teams, the Yankees (last season's World Series champions) and the Mets, could block any deal.
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