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It is that Lyons stops short of liberating councils to build more homes: Arcane Treasury rules currently stymie those councils which are keen to build the housing their residents need.
Yet the banks have been reluctant suspicious, like the IMF, that politics will stymie reform, drive up inflation and sink their newly bought bonds.
And the battle continues: in a San Jose court this week, Apple argued that Samsung owes it $2.2 billion for infringing patents on its devices.Ms Kane notes that Apple's campaign of litigation was inspired by Jobs, who was determined to stymie the advance of Google's Android mobile operating system, which Samsung has championed.
Mr Obama has been banging on about higher taxes for the rich since his previous election campaign, yet the Republicans have managed to stymie them.
The military junta of the time inserted it into the new constitution in 2008 specifically to stymie the political aspirations of their most feared opponent, then languishing under house arrest.
Sunni Arabs are now divided between yes, no and boycott camps, so the rejectionists seem less likely to muster the necessary two-thirds majority in at least three provinces to stymie the new constitution.So the last-ditch amendments may give Iraq's constitutional drafters more time to try pulling more Sunnis back into peaceful politics and away from the insurgency.
AS I have written in the print edition this week, an attempt by a local authority north of Belfast to stymie a play that satirised the Bible has ended in something like farce.
In the summer he pushed a bill that would have provided free health care to the emergency crews who sifted through the wreckage of 9/11, knowing that the Republicans would stymie it for fear that some of the beneficiaries might be illegal immigrants.Given that Mr Reid's other faculties appear intact, it seems a safe bet that he can still count to 60.
As soon as the chamber convened on January 5th, Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico, put forward a motion to change the rules of the filibuster, whereby 41 of the 100 senators can stymie almost any measure.
In this, it matches Nord Stream, a similar bypass under the Baltic (see map).South Stream may stymie a rival EU effort, Nabucco, which was meant to bring gas from the Caspian and Central Asia to western Europe through the Balkans.
The move would also stymie an effort by five big investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, to set up a similar system.A leaked report from the Shanghai Stock Exchange alleges that fund managers have colluded to enhance the values of each other's portfolios.
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The primary grammatical function of "stymie" is as a transitive verb . It describes the action of preventing or obstructing something. Ludwig examples show its use in various contexts, all confirming its role as an action word that directly impacts an object.
Expression frequency: Very common
