Meanwhile, Galuszka writes, gridlock in Washington continues to stymie efforts to clean up Big Coal.
Powerful unions stymie efforts to fire civil servants, making such jobs exceptionally stable and well protected.
Meanwhile, he said, prosecutors used the testimony to stymie efforts to prove Mr. Willingham's innocence and prevent his death.
Titled "Policing a Multicultural Society," the manual seeks to help recruits overcome cultural barriers that threaten to escalate tense situations and can stymie efforts to elicit information.
Here, the C.I.A. campaign is as unpopular as ever — and could stymie efforts over the coming days to revive diplomatic relations with Washington that have been frozen for four months now.
Six big processing companies which reap a lavish reward from the high prices European consumers pay for sugar are likely to stymie efforts to reform a system dating back to the late 1960s.
Florida's screwy power-plant law is just one example of the byzantine regulations that stymie efforts to make the nation's energy grid more efficient and prices more competitive.
Liberal Egyptian women clearly have their work cut out for them if they hope to stymie efforts to limit their rights and choices.
In this, it matches Nord Stream, a similar bypass under the Baltic (see map).South Stream may stymie a rival EU effort, Nabucco, which was meant to bring gas from the Caspian and Central Asia to western Europe through the Balkans.
But analysts and investors cautioned that regulators may stymie the deal, as they have with previous merger attempts between energy producers.
