Sentence examples for prevented approval from inspiring English sources

The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said on Monday that the White House did everything it could to push the nomination, and he lamented the "partisan obstructionism" that had prevented approval of Mr. Diamond.

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION -- Bitter arguments about an appropriate memorial at the World Trade Center site will prevent approval of any design this year.

Furthermore, anonymity of subjects was fully preserved to prevent approval effects.

It seems better to prevent approval of new drugs that show indications of possibly serious liver toxicity in clinical trial data, than to discover it later after approval and marketing.

Perhaps that has prevented his approval numbers on the economy from being even worse than they already are.

The same economic pressures that have prompted the New York Police Department to announce a fee for services during events like the New York City Marathon have prevented the approval of new events that require costly services like closing roads.

The European Commission proposed the idea a year ago as a way to break the current deadlock between opponents and supporters of GM crops that has prevented the approval of all but two varieties in the European Union.

San Martín supported this proposal, as well as Güemes and most deputies, except for those from Buenos Aires, who undermined the project and prevented its approval.

In the 1990s, abortion opponents, fearing that it would make abortion too easy and acceptable, fought to prevent American approval of the drug, which had been widely used abroad.

The episode is said to have told against him in 1977 when the incoming President Jimmy Carter nominated him as director of the CIA, but withdrew the nomination when he learned that the Chappaquiddick involvement might prevent his approval by the Senate; his registration as a conscientious objector with his draft board just after the second world war may also have been a factor.

Agencies have more or less effective counterincentives, of course; the American Food and Drug Administration cares about pharmaceutical companies, but its employees also care very, very much about not approving things that poison people (which isn't necessarily good, as it may prevent the approval of lifesaving drugs... but that is another post).