Mexico is also stonewalling on a bilateral agreement with China that it needs to enter the WTO.
But with Indonesia's army backing the anti-independence militias, and B.J. Habibie, Mr Wahid's predecessor, stonewalling for all he was worth, somebody would still have had to take a firm stand.
He found another director, Hisashi Mori, also seemed to be stonewalling him.
Stonewalling on immigration meant losing Latino votes; losing Latino votes meant losing elections; politicians do not like losing elections, therefore they must back immigration reform.For a while, the pieces dropped neatly into place.
Iran and Syria, though members of the NPT, are stonewalling inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear guardian, over mounting evidence of clandestine nuclear work.
Prosecutors face plenty of guile in the executive, from endless spinning and stonewalling to the careful delegation of illegal acts to junior officers.
Iran, continuing to insist that its nuclear development was solely for civilian energy purposes, persisted in stonewalling international watchdogs, even while Russia supplied Iran with uranium for enrichment and processing that could be diverted to weapons purposes.
What one really felt, watching Mr D stonewalling his inquisitors, was straightforward exasperation over the fact that he, and so many people like him, insist that the high-grade Monopoly they specialise in is worthy of such lavish reward, while the real business of life, as it were, exists elsewhere.
That makes no sense.' So they were stonewalling me, and I was forced to go to the courts.
Lawyers for the journalists moved to overturn the subpoenas, and, in a decision rendered on October 9, 2003, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued what amounted to a cry of revulsion at cozy journalistic-source relationships in Washington: "The deposition transcripts [of the government officials] generally reveal a pattern of denials, vague or evasive answers, and stonewalling.
In a statement announcing that, as part of the overall settlement, JPMorgan had agreed to pay a fine of two hundred million dollars to the British government, the Financial Conduct Authority, the U.K.'s main financial-regulatory agency, did bring up the bank's misleading statements and stonewalling after Iksil's losses emerged.
