That pledge came along with the unveiling of a resolution on Capitol Hill that appeared designed to pressure Obama into taking a tougher stance on Iran, and to foreclose any option of letting Iran achieve an atomic weapon.
His arch-rival, Patrick Henry, who had the Virginia State House in his pocket, exercised his political puissance to foreclose any such selection.
The bank offered no explanation, though the move seemed clearly intended to foreclose any attempted takeover by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Chief among them is the demand Iran that stop its uranium enrichment and never pursue plutonium reprocessing to foreclose any possible path to building a nuclear weapon.
His last hearing, in February, was cut short when prosecutors asked that his mental health be evaluated, apparently to foreclose any future appeal based on the potential argument that he was not competent to assist in his defense.
Well aware of the failed Republican ticket in 2008, Mr. Romney's staff sought to foreclose any possibility of a running mate's going rogue, à la Sarah Palin, by making sure Romney loyalists ran the show.
Somebody may assert that the line could give enough accessibility to foreclose any desire for the Rte.
In particular, the failure of Southern Union's special committee of directors to run a full sale process and agreement to repeatedly higher termination fees, appeared designed to deliberately foreclose higher bids instead of continuing an auction.
Congress has enacted several safe-harbor provisions applicable to automated network processes, see, e.g., 17 U. S. C. §512(a - b), but those provisions do not foreclose "a - bther defense," §512(l), including a volitional-conduct defense.
The insurance fund to be created by the Treasury Department at a size of up to $10 billion–will be designed to discourage lenders from opting to foreclose on mortgages that could be viable now out of fear that home prices will fall even further later on.
