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In both cases, China has effectively halted what had been large purchases of American exports, in the midst of the trade war.

The new policy is intended to break a prolonged political deadlock that has effectively halted most oil and gas development in many areas since the Reagan Administration opened the entire 1.4-billion-acre outer continental shelf to drilling.

ASEAN's tradition of acting only with consensus, combined with China's successful efforts to enlist Cambodia as its surrogate, has effectively halted joint-ASEAN action on these issues.

While the number of people seen sleeping rough on London's streets has effectively halted (8,108 identified in 2016/17, compared to 8,096 the previous year) the grim reality is that the number has actually doubled from the 3,975 homeless people reported in 2010/11.

In August, A. C. Gonzalez, the interim city manager, placed an item on the City Council agenda — with no prior council discussion — that would have effectively halted Uber's operations there.

Early in his career at the Court, in 1976, Stevens joined an opinion that reinstated the death penalty in the U.S., which the Court had effectively halted four years earlier.

Beijing's apparent tolerance for illicit timber imports stands in marked contrast to its domestic restrictions, which environmental groups say have effectively halted the clear-cutting of Chinese forests in recent years.

Mr. Brown's execution was cleared on Friday by a federal district judge, Jeremy D. Fogel, who had effectively halted executions in the state in 2006 after expressing concern about a three-drug cocktail commonly used in lethal injection procedures and various deficiencies in the state's methods, including the training of execution teams, antiquated facilities and the preparation of execution drugs.

Minority government holdings in commercial banks are being gradually sold off through the stock market, but resistance from unions and from within the prime minister's own party have effectively halted plans for the deregulation and eventual privatization of state-owned military companies and the national power company.

The concrete barrier that he and other members of the East German hierarchy called the "anti-fascist protection wall" had effectively halted the westward flight of skilled manpower that threatened to bleed the Communist state to economic death.

The report highlights the global financial, food and fuel crises that have effectively halted or reversed progress toward goals.