Sentence examples for blocking progress in the from inspiring English sources

Tauscher urged P5 action to get Pakistan to stop blocking progress in the CD on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT).

That big picture is currently cluttered with disputes between the Protestant and Catholic parties that are blocking progress in the struggle to produce political solutions to a conflict that has cost more than 3,600 lives in the last three decades.

Even well before the current crisis, China had been posing an increasing challenge to international rules and institutions, Mr Bergsten said: blocking progress in the Doha round of global trade talks, aiding foreign countries without regard to human rights or the environment and resisting adoption of a flexible exchange-rate policy.

Deferring trade talks until late 2001 does make better sense but the analysis of the problems blocking progress in the WTO, and The Economist's policy prescriptions, are less persuasive.In essence, The Economist argued that the WTO ministerial in Seattle failed because it tried to do too much.

The statement came at a time of deepening gloom among peace negotiators and lifted hopes that a stalemate over guerrilla disarmament that had blocked progress in the peace accord had been broken.

All eyes are now on the US — Israel's long-term ally and a member of the Security Council with veto power — which has traditionally blocked progress in the UN on the issue of Palestinian recognition.

I.R.A. inaction on arms is blocking progress in putting the Northern Ireland peace agreement into effect and has presented the British government with an unwanted deadline this Saturday by which it will most likely have to suspend the new power-sharing government in Belfast and restore direct rule of the province from London.

Britain has suspended the Northern Ireland government three times in efforts to steer the battling parties around impasses blocking progress in putting into place the various elements of the 1998 agreement that set up the home-rule Assembly.

The teachers' union, which is friendly with the party, is blocking progress in education.

Even where energy reform, sustainable forestry, and investments in public transit can be shown to be beneficial, powerful special interests are blocking progress in many countries.

Its earlier failure to address disarmament had blocked progress in realizing the provisions of the peace settlement of April 1998.