Sentence examples for prevented trade from inspiring English sources

The one-time construction manager used his inside knowledge to expose the clandestine use by companies of blacklisting that has prevented trade unionists and alleged "troublemakers" getting jobs.

Helen Yaffe, an LSE fellow who specialises in the Cuban economy and has spent years living in Havana, says: "You have to start with the blockade [which has prevented trade and investment from the US since 1960], although you don't want to always sound defensive.

Two years ago, the authorities tore down the bridge to prevent trade.

Eliminating or preventing trade barriers and coordinating regulatory actions, especially in emerging technologies, are the top priorities.

Far from preventing trade in rare species, CITES and most other conservation groups now want to design better ways to regulate that trade and to monitor its effects.

Another US law, the Futures Trading Practices Act of 1992, also prevents trade in derivatives from being regulated as gambling (although some people think that's all it is).

"There are lots of institutional firewalls to prevent trade wars that exist today that did not exist during the Great Depression," said Gary Hufbauer, senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The EU's draft text for a trade and sustainable development chapter also appears to draw an equivalence between the need to prevent trade distortions and the fight against climate change.

On January 18th, the Home Office indicated that it intends to try to extend labour laws aimed at preventing trade unionists from intimidating people in their homes to cover animal-rights activists.

The review's terms of reference include whether the law "adequately safeguards national defence capability and prevents trade and collaboration that could unwittingly advance the military capabilities of potential adversaries".

We want to share a continent where Europeans don't fight each other, don't prevent trade and where we allow its people to live and work wherever they like across their region.