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Although emerging markets may be disappointed not to see Mr. Carstens heading the fund, Ms. Lagarde's victory may end up being a better outcome because she "can twist the arms of European countries that have blocked progress on governance issues," said Eswar Shanker Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who worked at the I.M.F. for 17 years.

It is widely seen as a vehicle for Mr Aoun's own ambitions for the presidency, a post that by Lebanese tradition is reserved for a Maronite Christian.Mr Siniora's opponents have blocked progress on a bigger issue too: Hizbullah is the only Lebanese faction that has kept its weapons.

The failure of the government in Belgrade to apprehend him had blocked progress on E.U. membership.

Another complains that for years a single SEC bureaucrat has blocked progress on this issue.Things are likely to get worse.

Ever since, the anti-whaling majority on the commission has blocked progress on what is known as the Revised Management Scheme RMSS), a complex formula that would determine a quota for different whale species based on a sustainable yield.

The I.R.A. inaction has blocked progress on putting the peace agreement fully into effect and has presented the British government with an unwanted deadline of midnight Saturday for suspending the Northern Ireland government and putting the province back under direct rule from London.

They have tried to focus attention on areas where they say the Senate Republicans have blocked progress in Albany, including measures to protect women's rights, raise the minimum wage, tighten gun laws and overhaul campaign-finance laws.

A newspaper that was founded 165 years ago to campaign against farm protectionism cannot but join Mr Mahbubani in condemning the EU and America for clinging on to their farm subsidies and trade barriers, which have blocked progress in Doha.

The commission has been trying for five years to get national governments to agree on one patent regime, but disagreements over what languages patents should be translated into has blocked progress.

Its earlier failure to address disarmament had blocked progress in realizing the provisions of the peace settlement of April 1998.

The Clinton administration, under pressure from the Pentagon, had previously blocked progress on the accord, insisting that any agreement allow the United States to continue sending volunteers as young as 17 into combat.