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Many farmers look enviously at their French counterparts' direct action of blocking ports.
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They found a particular piece on the surface of the bacteria, which they have called SpyCEP, is responsible for blocking the action of IL-8.
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In these cases, treatments based on blocking the action of the hormone may be offered.
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Ajoene, the disulfide that naturally occurs in garlic, appears to work by blocking the action of glutathione.
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They then tested drugs to see which might be effective in blocking the action of this protein.
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The new drug, called a CETP inhibitor, works by blocking the action of a protein which lowers levels of "good" cholesterol in the body.
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The party's apparatus of control dominated every stage of decision-making in the disastrous Sanlu milk powder scandal, from covering up melamine contamination that poisoned thousands of babies to censoring media coverage that could have saved lives to blocking legal action that could have given families some measure of justice and deterred future corporate misbehavior.
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They are also adept at direct action, sometimes even blocking the streets by dumping tons of produce or manure.
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Churkin said Russia's military action is a humanitarian campaign aimed at blocking the "ethnic cleansing" of Ossetians by ethnic Georgians.
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The new class of drugs - DFSAs - permanently bind to the enzyme, blocking its action and stopping it from spreading further, the journal Science reported.
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So, a resilient design would allow for any of those individual modules to fail gracefully without blocking the reader from completing the primary action on the site reading news.
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Nor should Mr Putin's continued blocking of UN Security Council resolutions authorising intervention in Syria be treated as an insurmountable bar to action, any more than it was in Kosovo in 1999.
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