Even a global depression cannot be excluded in the face of this fundamental crisis.

General Motors, faced with an existential crisis, has sought to transform its business model.

But the stranglehold of North Korea s dictatorship is based on total isolation.

To modernize Russia, one must break the stranglehold of corruption, establish accountability, and free the media.

They have grown impatient with the messiness of the democratic process, stifling regulations, high taxes, and media scrutiny.

But the financial crisis is making the West happy to find friends with cash.

People say they voted for Haider and Strache to break the stranglehold of the ruling parties.

Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating Gases, Poisonous, or other Gases, and of Bacteriological methods of Warfare, Geneva, 17 June 1925

Instead there are wide spread monopolies, ubiquitous corruption, stifling state interferences, weak and contradictory laws.

That might seem crazy, especially given the likelihood of another round of economically crippling sanctions following the bombardment.

International Declaration Respecting Asphyxiating Gases, Hague, 29 July 1899 International Declaration Respecting Expanding Bullets, The Hague, 29 July 1899

With a heavy and stifling bureaucracy and the prospect of a dynastic political succession, sheer lack of hope drove hundreds of thousands of Egyptians onto the streets.

Maradona has been condemned to lie naked in front of millions of his fans, and his country has been condemned to pursue and reclaim him with its suffocating passion.

Nonetheless, such violence had not emerged out of nothing, but had a direct and identifiable origin the stranglehold of Israeli occupation and its cumulative effects.

With India playing a major role, the benefits of cooperation are immense, both within South Asia and across the continent more broadly. Greater regional cooperation can help South Asia to achieve shared prosperity that is both inclusive and sustainable.

Tarasofsky, supra note 70, at 56 (discussing the 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare).

But, rather than collapse (in the style of Asian and Latin American economies during the debt crises of old), Egypt s economy would risk a return to stifling controls and black markets.

Worse still, in a vast and predominantly rural country, the prime minister s underlings control broadcasting and maintain a choke hold on other media.

We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.

Before Thatcher s premiership, Britain was widely considered the sick man of Europe afflicted by stifling regulation, high unemployment, constant strikes, and chronic budget deficits.

The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts.

President Vladimir Putin s choice of Dmitri Medvedev, Chairman of Gazprom, the gas company with an emerging stranglehold on European energy supplies, only throws this question into an even starker light.

Maradona has been condemned to lie naked in front of millions of his fans, and his country has been condemned to pursue and reclaim him with its suffocating passion. So tragic a ritual can have no good end.

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud s far right central committee held on Israeli politics.

For instance, if your infrastructure is bad, or you have domestic policies that prevent investors from responding to market opportunities (such as South Asia s stifling licensing restrictions), you will see no results.

It will fall to the Union, once again, to help transform despair into hope. We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.

It has coped with the international community s increasingly stifling sanctions, while maintaining its nuclear program and continuing to participate in the diplomatic process with the P5 1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany).

To provide further detail regarding relevant entries in the Committee's matrix, the United Kingdom signed the Protocol for the Prohibition of the use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare on 17 June 1925 and ratified it on 9 April 1930.