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Former WTO Director-General Renato Ruggiero once called the WTO a "new constitution for a single global economy," and protesters have seized on this somewhat presumptuous self-characterization to portray the WTO as a police state designed by rich nations to facilitate the exploitation of poor ones.
But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón.
The police seized and held him Tuesday as he tried to unfurl a banner in front of Queen Elizabeth and Jiang Zemin as they processed in a royal carriage up the Mall to Buckingham Palace during the Chinese president's state visit to Britain.
“One thousand marijuana plants have been seized in a joint police investigation near here Monday.”
Kazimierz, a pragmatist, did not try to wrest control of Silesia, in the hands of Bohemia, or the territory seized by the independent state of the Teutonic Knights.