The government is expected, however, to appeal the injunction to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to try to keep it from taking effect pending an appeal of the overall case.
Formal approval is still pending and the countries concerned have been urged to keep it under wraps.
"If there's a pending availability crisis," he added, "they'll have strong leverage to keep it in operation even longer".
Mr. Zhang said in an interview at his headquarters here on Aug. 7 that he had all the approvals needed to start work, and he and other executives said that it was common in China to keep working pending further approvals.
Nor is it pending in the United States.
If the cat does not have a home and you very much so like the kitty, you may keep the cat pending it adapts to your home properly, gets along well and is not frightened by the other animals in your house, and you are willing to get him/her vaccinated properly.
Of the Mexican total, 45percentt were immediate family members of persons who had already qualified for legal residence; another 40percentt were more distant relatives of legal U.S. residents, most of whom had to wait 15 years or more to have their papers processed, paying regular fees to government agencies to keep them pending.
Immigration advocates say that a simple fix in procedure allowing these green card applicants to conduct their TB tests in the US would keep these pending permanent residents surrounded by their medical and family support systems.
But he added that it's important to keep pending cases moving.
It has kept pending long-overdue verdicts by a controversial tribunal set up to look at charges of genocide and other crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan.
Resolution of Brady v. NFL: When the Eighth Circuit allowed the NFL lockout to continue indefinitely, that was the death knell for any strategy to keep this lawsuit pending through the time it takes to proceed to trial.
