But powerful lobbies representing big ranchers and dairy farmers have stopped efforts in Congress in each of the last three years to prohibit slaughtering these animals for meat sold elsewhere.
The Supreme Court has stopped the efforts of Justice Roy Moore, the chief judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, to stand in the wedding aisle and block the marriages of same-sex couples in his state.
Treasury officials acknowledge that in light of the lawsuit, the savings and loan office has stopped all efforts to seize insolvent institutions and that the bailout will not go forward until a director is confirmed.
Congress has stopped these reckless efforts in the past.
That has stopped all drill efforts for now.
In the decades since he and May were the sharpest of stand-up comedy teams, Nichols has become a director known for putting a high commercial sheen on material, some of which ("Biloxi Blues," "Regarding Henry, Wolflf") has stopped rewarding the effort.
Mr. Moore, 60, who was convicted of killing two cabdrivers five days apart in 1979, has stopped fighting the state's efforts to execute him.
Escorted out of the room, Alicia was told by a doctor that Ryan's heart had stopped and efforts to restart it had failed.
About the same time, Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, was telling a Democratic event: "For too long, Republicans have stopped our efforts to help the economy and help the people who have been hardest-hit.
It declared that U.S. spy agencies judged "with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program". U.S. intelligence officials later said the conclusion was based on evidence that Iran had stopped secret efforts to design a nuclear warhead around the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
But that has not stopped efforts that were already underway to shore up sections of the southern border in two Texas counties.
