Or, more important, from initiating the conversation.
He seems to be saying that he only wants to stop those Washington politicians from initiating grandiose new spending schemes.
Yet the controversy which hovered over Romeo didn't dis courage Lady MacMillan from initiating the redesign of a second ballet, Triad.
The moratorium on taking control, an amendment to a schools construction bill, would bar the state from initiating any actions toward a takeover until June 2007.
The N.F.L. treats reporters like misbehaving children, restricting their movements to a D.M.Z.-like perimeter and prohibiting them from initiating conversations with players or coaches.
In March, the district court temporarily barred the district attorney from initiating any criminal charges against the girls.
Their purview extends from initiating pioneer settlement to conducting intensive scientific research and providing advisory and educational services.
With Lindros thus far resigned to shying away from initiating the sort of physical contact that makes him one of the league's most dominating players, the Rangers have suffered.
Israel, meanwhile, refrained for now from initiating large-scale retaliatory attacks against Lebanon for cross-border guerrilla attacks and the abduction on Saturday of three Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah fighters.
But ultimately, they can block only so much and won't be able to use their position, for example, to stop Trump from initiating mass deportations or blocking entry to all Muslims.
"This fact alone precludes us from initiating an emergency response under the European Union plant health directive and we would also fall foul of our international obligations under the World Trade Organisation," he wrote.
