Is it simply the heat, or the bounty of fruits, or some kind of common cultural attitude that often ends up stymieing development?
This paper argues that a number of structural characteristics that emerged as a function of the transition to mass higher education have served to stymie the development of government quality assurance mechanisms, including the decentralization of higher education policy, the development of a relatively homogeneous university sector, and the limited policy capacity of provincial ministries.
Opponents have also complained that the center would damage local businesses, stymie planned development and take away valuable parkland.
AT&T has argued in court and to the Federal Communications Commission that the fees should be reduced, lest it stymie the development of new business and technology.
The new president will need to push Parliament to streamline regulations that stymie business development and jobs, and overhaul the failing criminal justice and judiciary systems.
Antitrust regulators are right to look into whether the company is leveraging this clout to stymie the development of applications for its rivals, closing the door on competition.
But amid concerns from the solar power industry, members of Congress and the general public that the freeze would stymie solar development during a particularly critical time for energy policy, the bureau abruptly reconsidered.
Rising energy costs stymie economic development, and traditional sources of energy have negative health effects on communities most adversely affected by energy planning, which are too often low-income communities of color.
That is to say, while the globe's biggest industrial emitters, led by the fossil fuel industries, may have successfully helped to stymie the development of a binding treaty at Copenhagen — and, as my colleague John Broder reported late last week, to defang cap-and-trade legislation now pending in the American Congress — there is more pressure than ever on big business to come up with solutions.
Failure to respond to the underlying causes could create further issues for rulers and stymie economic development.
