The only way that could possibly happen is if one side of politics blocked the increase, and the only side of politics suggesting anything like doing that was Hockey's.
But in Cyprus, the past four years have offered a demonstration of what happens when politics blocks that economic alchemy: peace stalls.Strictly speaking, EU law is "suspended" in the north, home to about 30,000 Turkish troops who never left after invading the island in 1974 and driving a third of the Greek-speaking population from their homes.
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In Iran's faction-based politics, the divisions between political blocks are not clear-cut.
The reason this idea failed to advance, Mr. Bush argued last year, was that President Bill Clinton chose to play partisan politics and block it.
Germany and France, still at odds over a more forceful response to the sovereign debt crisis, postponed a decision-making summit meeting for several days amid signs that the complexities of European politics may block an all-encompassing resolution.
IN EUROPE "Germany and France, still at odds over a more forceful response to the sovereign debt crisis, postponed a decision-making summit meeting for several days amid signs that the complexities of European politics may block an all-encompassing resolution," The New York Times reported.
To me, that is a remarkably rose-colored view of printing and publishing up until the internet age, when gatekeepers had the power (and the politics) to block public access to all kinds of information.
The body is a parliament of nations, where international politics often blocks decisiveness.
The case was brought by a group of small contractors who believed their right to participate in politics was blocked by the prohibition.
