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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act as a block" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that prevents or obstructs progress or movement in a particular context.
Example: "The new regulations may act as a block to innovation in the tech industry."
Alternatives: "serve as an obstacle" or "function as a barrier."
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Let G act as a block primitive automorphism group on a 2− v,k,1) design, in this paper we proved that if 2G2 q)⊴G⩽Authen2(q)), then G is point primitive.
"In today's world," Justice Breyer said, "where nobody really understands this technology very well, a worse disaster for the country is to have protection given to things that don't deserve it because they act as a block on trade, they act as monopolies and they will tie the country up in individual monopolies that will raise prices to consumers".
Although p27KIP is expressed in supporting cells and may act as a block to cellular proliferation [35], a probe for this gene was not included on our array.
Such idiotypic Ig must be taken into account when planning treatment of B cell neoplasms with antiidiotypic antibody since it could act as a block to antibody attack.
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Let G act as a block-transitive and point-primitive automorphism group of a 2- v,k,1) design D. Set k2="(k,v-1).
Twitter could, therefore, act as a blocking agent in the event of a union with the younger Snap.
However, the ZnO buffer layer can act as a blocking layer to suppress carrier recombination that can occur across both the film electrolyte interface and the substrate electrolyte interface [10].
A detached battalion of 7th SS Division would act as a blocking force driving north.
In June 1942, as the military situation in New Guinea deteriorated further, the battalion received orders to move up the Kokoda Track in order to act as a blocking force against the possibility of a Japanese advance overland from the north.
These compounds, and, consequently, the high antioxidant activity of these extracts, can interfere with the metabolic activation of pro-mutagens and can act as a blocking agent, forming adducts with final mutagens.
Acting as a block membrane against the exogenous attack, the glycocalyx that is formed around the cell during bacterial cultivation and growth is introduced in the coating mortars.
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