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Environmentalists in the United States are trying to stop large-scale imports of oil from oil sands.

Solar energy firms are threatening to take legal action against the government after ministers said they could stop large-scale commercial "solar farms" from hoovering up a green electricity subsidy.

Venezuela says it will close its border with Colombia at night from Monday, to try to stop large-scale smuggling of petrol and food.

Leaning heavily on the conventional conditions contained in the just war framework, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty argued that we may engage in war aimed at protecting those who suffer at the hands of governments unwilling or unable to stop large-scale human rights abuses.

He leads a group of scientists and activists working to stop large-scale mining projects.

The I.O.C. stopped large-scale sex testing in 1999.

The fragmentary nature of the weapons programmes suggests that containment had stopped large-scale weapons-making.

That has not stopped large-scale exploitation of the stock, with illegal fishing commonplace for many years.

But stopping Keystone XL would be a major step toward stopping large-scale environmental destruction, the distortion of Canada's economy and the erosion of its democracy.

Action: Improve grassland habitat by stopping large-scale poisoning of mountain pikas Description: Imagine a large, furry gerbil with no tail and you are close to what a pika looks like.

But at least as important, the officials say, is the fact that Pakistan's military has agreed to a series of peace deals with the militants under which it stopped large-scale operations in the tribal areas in February, allowing the insurgents greater freedom to train, recruit and carry out attacks into Afghanistan.