But Trump's decision was blocked by the courts, and unable to come to any sort of agreement on broader reforms, Congress basically gave up on the issue.
13 Because the possibility of establishing a communicative community – not to mention rationality (Habermas, 1984) – around the abortion decision is blocked in important ways, there emerges a Sovereign in this state of emergency.
Previous attempts by Ms Ortega to challenge executive decisions have been blocked and she has been fiercely attacked by government loyalists.
"In some important political areas we need to transfer more jurisdiction to Brussels, so that not every decision can be blocked by any member state," Mr. Schäuble told the magazine Der Spiegel.
David Davis, the prominent Conservative backbencher, said: "This is not the judge checking the evidence, it is the judge checking the correct procedure has been followed", meaning the home secretary "would had to have behaved in an extraordinary manner for her decision to be blocked by a judge".
The drafters established a foothold for rule of law and inclusion, but explicit references to human rights and participatory decision-making were blocked by hostile autocratic governments and the unfortunate acquiescence of democratic nations, too.
Although this decision has subsequently been blocked by a higher court, for a brief moment in time it looked like the NFL was in serious trouble in their fight with the players.
Two Dissenters (U-2 or Unanimity minus two) also can't block a decision, but they are more effective at prolonging debate and obtaining a third dissenter (in which case a decision usually can be blocked) if they agree on what is wrong with the proposal.
It has been demonstrated [e.g., Perea et al., 2004] that participants change their decision criteria when word frequency is blocked, so that in pure blocks of high-frequency words decisions can be made based on familiarity more than on unique word identification.
