Moreover, some who grasp the environmental aspects of water misuse nonetheless have a mental block on invoking the market as a remedy.

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The high court's ruling on the state-secrets matter could influence other cases where the government is invoking national security to block litigation by terrorism suspects and others.

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This helps it to avoid formally having to block the bid by invoking EU law on public-security grounds.

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It has expressed its anger with Russia not by invoking sanctions like the cutting back of the G8 to the old G7 without Moscow or by seeking to block Russian entry into the World Trade Organization, but by promising to help reconstruct a ravaged Georgia.

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