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For six years they managed to block any serious talks.

For six years, Vice President Dick Cheney and other hard-liners managed to block any serious talks with North Korea.

What Hollande hopes to gain from this meeting is a first-hand assessment of whether Merkel has enough energy and political determination left to block any serious attempt at turning Europe around.

WASHINGTON — An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which Blackwater Worldwide security guards were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians, according to court testimony made public on Tuesday.

Treating these people as heretics is a monumental gift to insurgents in the climate debate who really do want to block any serious action on the issue - because it allows them to portray themselves as David, and the climate establishment as Goliath.

The former oligarch was suddenly pardoned by President Vladimir Putin and flown to Germany after spending a decade in custody on charges some believe were fabricated to block any serious political opposition to the strongman of the Kremlin.

For years the country's Congress has blocked any serious attempt at economic reform.

And you have a super-rich prime minister who vows he'll take on tax havens, all the while blocking any serious attempt to do so.

Yet following the script of Big Tobacco a generation ago, Big Chem has, so far, blocked any serious regulation of these endocrine disruptors, so called because they play havoc with hormones in the body's endocrine system.

He thinks the mood now feels more like 1982, when earlier efforts in Geneva to launch a new round came to nought because France blocked any serious discussion of agriculture.

So far, the Democratic leadership has blocked any serious examination of the project's challenges, he said.