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Japanese fishing villages have long prevented overfishing in local waters by using versions of harbor gangs.

Apart from buying oceans of Iranian crude, China has benefited from the gradual withdrawal of European oil companies from Iran; unilateral American sanctions have long prevented American outfits from working there.

But the divisions between Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of Indonesia's first leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, leader of a large rural Muslim group and a champion of secular Islam, and Amien Rais, who is popular among urban Muslims and has recently been preaching a secular message of national unity, have long prevented them from pulling it off.

"But now, more than ever, we have been successfully overcoming barriers that have long prevented us from accessing positions of leadership in politics". .

A revised Constitution Minister Kilonzo reaffirmed the country's commitment to child rights but also recognized the gaps that have long prevented many Kenyan children from realizing their rights.

That has long prevented any workable alliance with the other main opposition group, the Chinese-led Democratic Action Party. Chinese-led Democratic Action Party

An obstacle of America's own making has long prevented comprehensive negotiations over weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

He said existing laws had long prevented university students from being actively involved in a "significant aspect of the democratic process".

By now my father, too, must see what his romanticism has long prevented him from seeing: Armenia is not free, not independent, not united.

MOSCOW — When Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, abruptly dismissed Moscow's powerful mayor last year, he violated a "keep your friends close but your enemies closer" precept that has long prevented the rise of dangerous opponents in Russian politics.

As for the affiliates' efforts to retain the 35percentt coverage cap, he said those arguments contradicted the newspaper companies' own lobbying to end a separate regulation -- the one that has long prevented newspapers from owning a paper and a TV station in the same city.