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No state can be pleased about having representatives of a military bloc to which it does not belong coming close to its borders.

Sometimes laughter was the only remedy for life in "Absurdistan" , as the Soviet bloc was often called.

EU antidumping measures also had been down in recent years, as the bloc moved to encourage free trade.

Their next battleground is Pennsylvania, a state with a large bloc of blue-collar workers who have been a pillar of her support.

To break this stalemate, he thinks, "we need an ethical bloc" of even just a few state politicians willing to be practical.

He said it was dangerous for France to be seen as part of a "western bloc against the Arab and Muslim world" .

Before 1989, Romania's Securitate was one of the Eastern bloc's largest secret police forces in proportion to its population.

The only certain result was that two Olympic Games were spoiled, because in 1984 the Soviet bloc, in retaliation, boycotted Los Angeles.

To the best of our knowledge, the en bloc excision of a solitary sacral osteochondroma has not been previously reported.

By negotiating as a unit, China can hide behind the needs of its bloc partners in a way it never could if it was negotiating on its own.

"It seemed like a fascinating idea to have a language not connected to any particular country or political bloc, " he said.

Officials said the building was an administrative bloc not connected with the military.

Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, has said EU nations must be ready to help each other but has not explained how.

The place is choc-a-bloc with canoodling lovebirds, so much so that I often felt I was the only lone traveller in the whole country.

The 27-member bloc is trying to work out whether new legislation is required to facilitate the digitisation of European culture.

These all seem to be steps intended towards creating a regional bloc in the Middle East and North Africa.

or with Che Guevara, who by many accounts broke with him over his decision to lead Cuba into the Soviet bloc.

He said his country would not associate itself with any power bloc .

Hispanic voters also make up an important bloc and an interesting "realignment" of their vote might be in the offing, Zogby said.

(Laughter) Let me tell you my story. 20 years ago, Bonnier, Swedish publisher, started to set newspapers in the former Soviet Bloc.

Europe's fitful recovery is unfolding more than a year after the 16 - nation currency bloc emerged from its worst recession in decades .

By precipitately wielding his veto, Mr Cameron may well have hastened the formation of such a bloc, to the detriment of British interests.

But Reagan's speech presciently identified Berlin as the proving ground of Gorbachev's intentions to open up the communist bloc.

Moreover, public debt in Estonia at 7. 2 percent of gross domestic product is tiny compared with that of most other countries in the bloc.

China and Japan could put aside their differences and form the heart of a third major trading bloc in Asia.

Beijing is promoting its own vision of a regional trade bloc that would exclude the U. S.

The main reason there was the decline in demand from the ex-Soviet bloc economies in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Even the late Roh Moo-hyun, a former president who floated the idea of a joint economic bloc with the North, took a cautious approach.

Analysts say emerging-market nations are a more varied and less unified bloc than Europe, which has its own currency and common interests.

As for Europe, it says that the bloc needs to sort out a common defence strategy and modernise its economy - arguments still made today.

Schroeder said in an interview with Der Spiegel that European Union leaders were wrong to expect the euro to drive the bloc on its own.

Mr Singh faces opposition from his coalition government's allies in the communist bloc of parties and also from leading nuclear scientists.

The UK is trying to remove aviation from the bloc's target on renewable fuels.

North Korea did not and, lacking communist bloc support, fell into destitution.

Analyzed from above, the post-modern anti-scientific thoughts is not a unified camp. Each school oneself is not the monolithic bloc.

Spain and other countries on the bloc's periphery have been a key driver of the region's growth in the past decade.

It may yet provide just such a challenge to the unity of the nascent Bric bloc.

China will never yield to the pressure of any major power, nor will it align itself with any power or bloc of powers.

But to talk of the rising powers forming a coherent bloc of economic power than can run the world is, at best, premature.

Mantega whose country holds the rotating presidency of the bloc said each country will take action according to its own situation.

Sweden represents the European Union, as it holds the six-month rotating presidency of the 27-country bloc until the end of the year.

Open piping attached to a filled tank will not start to drip-leak following installation and test of a Chemtrol Tru-Bloc shut-off valve.

EU leaders agreed this week to press ahead with a bloc-wide levy even though the chances of a global deal are dead.

But data out the day before showed joblessness in the bloc had climbed to its highest in a decade.

But with 'one country one vote', African, Arab or Asian countries, or indeed Europeans voting en bloc, can easily outvote the United States.

It was rescued only by the intervention of a farm bloc seeking new funding for sales to major overseas markets.

When asked about a possible Greek exit from the common currency bloc, Draghi said such an option was not in the treaty.

Growth is still massively imbalanced in the currency bloc, with Germany powering ahead, while peripheral nations are still struggling.

The clear implication is that investors do not believe the currency bloc's debt crisis is over, multi-billion euro zone bailouts or not.

Soviet Russia had carved out a trading bloc of communist states in Eastern Europe, which limited reliance on the West.

Against the ailing euro, the pound is expected to gain ground as the British economy picks up steam faster than in the 16-nation bloc.

The euro is still in crisis, and the euro bloc of nations looks further away from a solution to the problem than it did six months ago.

At a press conference in Brussels, E. U. economic affairs commissioner Joaquin Almunia summed up the year for the 27-member bloc.

bloc ECOWAS say the leaders will try to persuade Mr. Gbagbo to make a peaceful exit in which his safety and security will be guaranteed.

If the elections go ahead, most observers predict the Islamists will emerge as the dominant bloc in a civilian-coalition government.

But it also reflects a new-found determination by the bloc to get its hands dirty fixing the fiscal problems of its profligate members.

Complete en bloc resection of ependymomas is usually preferred to prevent local recurrence or dissemination via the CSF.

The line is amazing, a steep line out the overhanging side of a massive bloc in a green valley.

Still, members of the Fatah parliamentary bloc refused to participate in the new cabinet, saying it was formed without proper consultation.

Others have suggested that a more fitting model could be found in France, the wealthy co-leader with Germany of a powerful regional bloc.

In just a few months 10 new countries, many of which have won their freedom from the old Soviet bloc, will join.

Although the jobless rate across the bloc rose only slightly, there were significant differences in individual countries.

The Soviet bloc once played an important role in establishment of the state of Israel, but this fact is ignored by academia for a long time.

Both Japan and China are vying to influence ASEAN as it becomes a more integrated political and economic bloc.

Others questioned the value of joining the U. S. -centric bloc, especially without the participation of Asia's largest economy, China.

Johanna Sigurdardottir, prime minister and a Social Democrat, insists that joining the EU trade bloc is the best option.

The party would also approach the Dutch Freedom Party, a spokesman said, though agreeing on a leader for the bloc could prove difficult.

The prospect of these divisions resurfacing at the Durban talks is also leading some countries to bet the bloc will cave in.

And while this is not Mr O'Neill's fault, the growing habit of lumping the Brics together into a geopolitical bloc makes even less sense.

The other 15 countries that use the euro have pledged to help, but the bloc remains divided over just where the threshold for aid lies.

Earlier in the year, Mao had proclaimed his policy of "leaning to one side" as a commitment to the socialist bloc.

The eurozone has the money for this: the currency bloc is in external balance.

Long-term since, chinese civil aviation implements the unified fare system of a monolithic bloc all the time.

The ureter and gonadal vein packet are dissected en bloc and lifted antero-laterally off the psoas muscle towards the renal hilum.

Having been brought up in old Eastern Bloc Germany, he has an advantage.

The euro now may have become the main indicator of the depth of the currency bloc's crisis, potentially making it more volatile.

All the bloc's efforts to diversify its sources of energy, away from Russia. will likely amount to little.

Life there was pretty dull, just like it was in the capital cities of all the other Communist-bloc countries.

But the eurozone leadership's vanishing credibility means the bloc is playing with a very weak hand.

With the young currency bloc facing the first major test of its fiscal reliability, financial markets are hedging their bets.

This will boost China's internal market as well as trade with its Asian neighbors, and will spur the development of an Asian economic bloc.

In an entirely different strategic model, the Russian is concentrating his bet on a unique power bloc.

A breakup of the euro currency bloc, which many economists consider a serious risk, would have incalculable consequences.

Any change in these laws requires unanimous agreement among all countries and applies throughout the entire bloc.

Singapore, which currently leads the regional bloc, says it is confident the charter will be ratified by the end of the year.

Rife long already east bloc sells Oriental home equity grants a be related that get treasure, be about to knock calm.

The boasts of the EU insiders that Europe could be a bloc to rival China never looked more pathetic.

After all, Japan tried and failed to build a yen-trading bloc in Asia at the height of its boom.

Some regional diplomats see the Asean group as the kernel of a broader free-trade bloc spanning the Pacific.

In 1956, it was reopened as the Peace Hotel and catered to a clientele of visitors from the Soviet Union and other communist bloc allies.

Goran supporter, parliament member Sirwan Zahawi, said his bloc "could win up to 35 seats" in the 111 seat Kurdish parliament.

What was once a split demographic has become a solid voting bloc for the Democratic party for many years to come.

And simultaneously establishes improves the system of collective security which adapts with this bloc economy level of development.

Such a strategy should start with China's partners in the Basic bloc.

Mr. Putin has, in contrast, argued for greater protectionism and for building a trade bloc of former Soviet republics.

The CPC 's International Department was once a major organization that dealt with Party diplomacy within the Soviet bloc.

Inflation in the currency bloc unexpectedly remained at a three-year high in October, and unemployment also increased in September.

The regional bloc is comprised of six member countries including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Mr. Reinfeldt chaired the meeting, since Sweden currently holds the bloc's rotating presidency.

But although Germany is the currency bloc's paymaster, pushing for a technical default won't help matters.

From the 1960s onward, it was a fairly frequent occurrence for Eastern bloc nations and the West to trade captured and accused spies.

Such countries took advantage of their membership in the 16-nation euro bloc during the boom by borrowing at unusually low interest rates.

Attempts by euro zone leaders to draw a line under the bloc's debt crisis and avoid contagion, meanwhile, already appear to be stumbling.

Bloc voting is very common in impoverished, traditional, rural societies, where the local big shot's advice is not seriously questioned.

However, less is known about soft tissue recurrence after en bloc resection of this tumor with positive margins.

This study compared technique characterization and organ injuries of rapid liver procurement versus en bloc liver-kidney procurement.

Finally, without the timely help form the local powers, Xiaozhuang Regime was overturned by the remaining forces of Er Zhurong bloc.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, gained the support, Tuesday, of the largest bloc in Iran's parliament.

The proposal is to form an economic bloc, like the European Union.

But others, most obviously the US and European "gold bloc" countries, were sharply constrained in their ability to adjust their currencies.

To date, few large clinical series with en bloc resection of these tumors exist.

One way was to group steel mills together as a negotiating bloc.

"This isn't a fast-integrating, unified economic bloc, " said Jonathan Anderson, chief Asia-Pacific economist at UBS financial services.

In recent weeks, data show a bipolar world in which the strongest bloc is the US, rather than emerging markets or (obviously) Europe.

Nikita Khrushchev was not keen to export the Communist ideology abroad, outside of the Eastern Bloc.

A China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement came into effect in January, forming an economic bloc of 1. 9 billion people.

EU policy makers say the tumult in Greece poses an important test of the credibility of the euro, the bloc's decade-old common currency.

Study Design. Retrospective study of 20 consecutive patients who underwent en bloc tumor excision of sacral chordomas and chondrosarcomas.

The prices of raw materials began to rise rapidly, because the demand in Russia and other former Soviet bloc economies began to grow again.

But not all is well -- business surveys showed the bloc's economy is in serious danger of lurching from stagnation into outright recession.

However, collectively, the European Union still carries enormous clout as the world's biggest economy, trading bloc and aid donor.

Even Germany, the currency bloc's economic powerhouse, is not immune to the global moderation in growth.

Bloc Party. Asian nations are lowering trade barriers to keep their economies chugging. Why the West should be worried.

By 1936 even the gold-bloc countries had abandoned the link, but by then the damage to world trade had been done.

Pathologic analysis confirmed the en bloc resection without tumor exposure in the 3 patients with a spinal tumor.

Russia is vehemently opposed to the notion of NATO membership for the two former Soviet bloc countries.

Nowadays, it is a common and facing problem for the fast developing real estate bloc corporation to fulfill collectivization.

A less suitable basis for a cohesive economic bloc than Apec is hard to imagine.

Eight of the accession countries only recently regained their independence from the Soviet bloc.

One market wag joked that somebody should start trading the Cement bloc (Countries Excluded from the Emerging New Terminology).

Any decision to join the 27-member bloc will still need to be approved by Icelanders in a national referendum.

This bloc of 10 south-east Asian nations, bound by trade and political links, is an increasingly vital engine of global economic growth.

But that voting bloc is shrinking while emerging Democratic constituencies are projected to grow in size and voting strength.

Until now the bloc has relied on the more widely used penalties for dumping, in which a company exports its goods below cost.

The countries that were once in the Soviet bloc have also followed a more traditional route than those in Asia.

By then, consumer spending in Asia in purchasing power parity terms will overtake North America to become the largest consumer bloc.

He reiterated that the central bank expects the bloc's economy to bottom out this year before staging a gradual recovery.

Output may shrink 10 per cent this year, making Russia one of the former Soviet bloc's laggards.

Eurozone ministers are set to meet in Brussels as the debt crisis once again threatens the 16-member bloc's economic stability.

In doing so, the industries risk alienating the greatest growing spending bloc on the planet.

Like so many former Eastern Bloc cities, Budapest has transformed itself over the last 20 years.

Jobbik intends to set up a new political bloc in co- operation with the BNP.

En bloc resection and a negative resection margin were obtained in all.

Their economies were resource-intensive and depended on trade within the Soviet bloc.

Election observers will include a coalition from Ghana, the regional bloc ECOWAS and the United Nations.

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Juries can no longer be sworn en bloc and may be challenged individually before they are sworn.

Each protocol is displayed en bloc, enabling rapid appreciation of indications and the necessary scanner settings.

Whether it will work or not is uncertain. Both the euro and the bloc remain vulnerable.

Study Design. A retrospective review of patients with interruption of the artery of Adamkiewicz during total en bloc spondylectomy (TES).

Methods: The celiac artery was ligated at its start point, and distal pancreas and involved arteries were resected en bloc.

Including the 27-member European Community which Lieberman expects to vote as a bloc in support of the ban.

European Union leaders are holding discussions over the bloc's seven-year budget.

Of all the former Communist bloc countries, Belarus has perhaps the closest resemblance to the Soviet Union.

Harith Obeidi the parliamentary leader of Iraq's largest Sunni bloc was killed by a teenage boy after delivering a sermon in west Baghdad.

It may be hard to believe, but 60 years ago many western politicians feared the Soviet bloc might outpace them.

But the BBC Middle East correspondent says it's not clear the two Islamist groups will work as a single bloc.

The 27-nation bloc, also relaxed restrictions on two airlines from Indonesia and put a Suriname airline onto the blacklist.

The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the exile combatants in three days.

The first major evolution to the True Union Ball Valve, Model-B, introduced the Tru-Bloc concept, a functional safety feature.

The new rules will kick in when the bloc's existing regulation on mobile roaming expires at the end of June next year.

The bloc's rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, relies heavily on France for its triple A status.

This method allows policy across the bloc to be crafted where the EU does not have any formal powers.

In all, the EU bloc was providing half the funds required for Chernobyl "shelter and safety" projects.

When asked whether this would include Moscow accepting the rejection of communist parties in the Soviet bloc.

If the EU is judged as a bloc, it would come in fourth place.

The DShK heavy machine gun is a staple of Soviet-bloc forces and those who have purchased their weaponry from such sources.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, sparking interest in former Soviet bloc countries.

Even an auction last week from Germany, considered the bloc's safe core, garnered surprisingly weak demand.

When this is taken into account, China's trade with Iran totals at least $36. 5bn, which could be more than with the entire EU bloc.

How did a Wall Street buzzword coined by Goldman Sachs become a powerful new bloc in world affairs?

But if the European Union and American state they develop new policy against Iranian regime they will act with the Western bloc.

These could become the basis of a pan-Asian trade bloc, reckons Kiat Sittheeamorn, Thailand's chief trade negotiator.

So the result is that we're now more socialist in many ways than any other developed country outside the Communist bloc.

But Germany's willingness to support the concept suggests the bloc is uniting behind a revised strategy.

Second, none of the S3 bloc is hampered by fiscal risks or weak growth.

But with the assent of the bloc's two biggest economies, backing seemed assured.

With over 13 years of intensive research on Magna Bloc, we are confident that it can effectively relieve discomfort.

As the largest former eastern bloc country, its clear view may also have an impact on others in the region.

Burma is a member of the 10-nation regional bloc, which has a policy of non-interference in member state's domestic affairs.

Instead, it will be at the center of the largest voting bloc in Europe.

It is also unlikely to be all upward for the commodity bloc wheat producers.

The agreement was reached Friday in Brunei during a meeting between members of the 10-member ASEAN organization and the European bloc.

late that summer , bloc party , which collected the band ' s first two singles , arrived in the states.

Diplomats say there are likely to be 15 or 16 countries opposing the plan by the commission, the bloc's executive arm.

A "Trans-Pacific Partnership" with vital Asian countries could help head off an Asian trade bloc.

However, the Eastern Bloc had its own line-up of riot police vehicles.

But the communist bloc was not as stable as it appeared.

And still, as in the entire Soviet bloc, repression, backed by Soviet tanks, worked.

Growth across the 15- country bloc would average about 1. 75 per cent this year, the IMF said in its latest report on the region.

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If France falters, it risks plunging the bloc's efforts to overcome the debt crisis into disarray.

The former Eastern Bloc countries that joined the European Union en masse in 2004 offer lower wages and workers with more schooling.

Speaking to reporters, he signaled the African bloc's willingness to negotiate.

Despite the worries about EU solidarity, the 27-nation bloc's new members remain committed to enhancing their integration.

After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc.

The new club's 17 members could still force through big changes to the single market if they acted as a bloc.

After a 3-month survival period, the spines were harvested en-bloc and time zero control screws were instrumented in adjacent vertebrae.

All malignant tumors were resected en bloc, and the spinal deformity was corrected precisely according to the preoperative plan.

The euro bloc likely expanded modestly in the third quarter, thanks to strong growth in the early summer.

Current threats from the Eastern bloc are directed at massive monetary gain - probably in the area of tens of millions of dollars [5].

All our cities are choc-o-bloc with people due to migration from the rural areas.

In symptomatic cases, en bloc resection is generally the treatment of choice.

A bloc of African nations agreed this month on their bottom line for any deal but have not disclosed it.

His group secured two seats more than the bloc led by Nouri al-Maliki, the current Shiite Prime Minister.

In 1976, Ethiopia government reached the first military assistance agreement with Soviet, and slided the Soviet bloc gradually.

Volar is an international brand club & lounge, first opened in 2006. In June 2008 VOLAR has opened its sister club BLOC.

A bloc leader is the delegate who plays the leading role in a bloc.

Lawmakers loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have announced that they are withdrawing from the Shiite bloc in parliament.

These leaflets questioned the claims and intentions of dictatorships in the Eastern Bloc, and many people paid dearly for distributing them.

Political changes in Eastern Europe in 1989 pulled down the communist bloc one on one like a domino collapse.

And East German citizens still shared with the Bulgarians the reputation of being the most quiescent people in the Soviet bloc.

Republican Terri Leo, a member of thepowerful Christian conservative voting bloc, called the standards "worldclass" and "exceptional. "

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bloc won 38 percent of the vote in Baghdad, 37 percent in Basrah, and large margins in other provinces.

He says the bloc will maintain humanitarian support for Zimbabwe's needy.

In March, Ecuador announced a $500 million deal with Sinopec to develop an oil bloc.

Serbia is to submit a formal application on Tuesday to join the European Union's 27-nation bloc.

The eurozone crisis has wreaked untold damage on the bloc's banking sector.

That country has shown signs of latching on to the NATO bloc.

The Hotel's room division offers 15 garden mansions, each for en-bloc leases.

The idea of an East Asia trade bloc has been batted about for years.

With continuing weakness in Italy and Spain, a return to growth in the 16-nation bloc will rely on France and Germany.

The other great casualty of the Fed's blunder has been the global dollar bloc.

Using a Chemtrol spanner wrench1, unscrew the seat-carrier (Tru-Bloc Model-C) by rotating in the counterclockwise direction.

The 27-nation bloc wants a deal by 2015 for all nations that would be implemented by 2020 at the latest.

Marching with the women soldiers' bloc is a special opportunity for 21-year-old Qin Yuyan.

But the dollar, euro and yen have become an imperfect exchange rate bloc.

The prospect from the region becoming a formidable bloc in the world is well within our reach.

Only when this issue is tackled will this bloc of 10 countries realise its economic potential.

By 1989, the whole of the Soviet bloc was struggling under the weight of rapidly increasing foreign debts.

On Monday, the euro fell from a six-month high, on fears about the bloc's periphery.

The development of economic relations can enlarge the bloc favouring the unification and strengthen the forces supporting the unification.

Let's consider all the difficulties en bloc.

The bloc said it will charge duties ranging from 4 to 12 percent for five years as an anti-subsidy tariff.

First in this plan, Hamas wants to expand the circle of countries that support it and chip away at the bloc opposing it.

There are similar ambiguities within the euro bloc.

"In the Russian bloc of influence, we definitely have a missing piece, " said Ching-Wo Ng, a King & Wood partner.

She says having a large voting bloc could change the way other Americans view Muslims.

Satellite countries in the Eastern Bloc.

Where contraceptive use has risen, such as in the former Soviet bloc countries, abortion rates have invariably fallen.

Affiliated to Hubei Highway Transport (bloc) CO. , LTD, Hongji Passenger Station was founded in 1988.

The reality is that the BRICS are anything but a unified bloc.

It's insignificant as a trade bloc.

On 25 April 2005 Bulgaria signed the Treaty of Accession with the European Union and is set to join the bloc in 2007.

To avert financial disaster for Greece, the bloc must forge a compromise by a June 23-24 EU summit.

The 25-nation European bloc is the biggest donor of aid to the Palestinians.

Events such as further near-collapses of European banks could force the bloc to take further measures, many analysts believe.

Fourth, it will be a long time, if ever, before Asia forms a closely integrated economic bloc.

Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1, 311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition.

BusinessEurope, the EU's main business lobby, last week said it expects the bloc to shed 4. 5 million jobs this year.