They might use their political power to thwart policies favored by majorities of Americans perhaps opposing progressive taxation, regulation of the financial system, or spending programs that favor low- and middle-income citizens.
It has a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, which it can use to thwart American policy towards Iran and Kosovo (which may yet provide a pretext for even nastier Russian meddling in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, breakaway regions of Georgia).
For a start, it would be a real public relations risk for such relatively limited interest groups to seek to thwart a policy established by a directly elected city mayor and overwhelmingly endorsed by a consultation process involving the views of more than 21,000 people.
for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
O'Sullivan was protesting European meddling in American affairs, especially by France and England, which he said were acting for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
Former Gov. Jim Florio, who was recently appointed chairman of the Pinelands Commission and has in the past been on the receiving end of Mr. DeMarco's efforts to thwart preservation policies, said the decision made sense given Mr. DeMarco's apparent scaling back of his business.
Second, because he is chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, Mr. Hefley was able to insert a tiny provision in a mammoth Defense Department bill, passed by the House in May, that the Pentagon believes would have the effect of thwarting its policy.
U.S. lawmakers have also tried to thwart European policies that target settlement businesses.
He had a well-known hostility toward federal employees, especially at State, which he saw as filled with Kennedy-era liberals who were more interested in thwarting his policies than carrying them out.
