And the global food and financial crises threaten to stymie recent progress.

Hamas has the power to stymie the vote and has indicated that it would do so.

But its other intention was probably to stymie American efforts to adopt new United Nations sanctions on Iran.

If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet s politically liberalizing elements.

Such leadership can stymie politically motivated challenges to the referendum s result and preempt a period of uncertainty that increases tensions on the ground.

Nevertheless, despite the new Congress s overwhelmingly pro Israel cast, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should not assume that the Republicans will stymie Obama if he pushes resolutely for an Israeli Palestinian peace deal.

Aside from the retreat of democracy in Russia, China now the world s oldest autocracy is demonstrating that when authoritarianism is entrenched, a marketplace of goods and services can stymie the marketplace of political ideas.

But there has been an unacknowledged movement on the part of some to ghettoise this Commission, corral all discussions regarding women into the sphere only of CSW and in addition, to stymie its efforts.

If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet s politically liberalizing elements. Through discreet but tough controls, Beijing pursues a policy of wai song, nei jin relaxed on the outside, vigilant internally.

The financial industry battled against this new legislation. It lobbied regulatory agencies and Congress to delay or weaken reforms after they were enacted urged Congress to block key nominees and withhold essential funding and launched aggressive lawsuits to stymie implementation of important rules.