Sentence examples for block agenda from inspiring English sources

"Divided government empowers the opposition party to block agenda issues they oppose," Binder writes.

Mr Koch wants the opposition to block Agenda 2010; and Mr Stoiber has attacked Mrs Merkel's reforms.Mr Stoiber's criticism is driven not only by power politics.

The Society says milkmen and parent leaders can exercise influence over politicians to help block Agenda 21.

Most executives would disagree with the Block Expansionist agenda, as would most institutional investors.

But if opposition parties make gains in new elections, it will be harder for them to block his agenda.

For the many Republicans who were elected during Obama's presidency with a mandate to block his agenda, obstruction comes much more naturally than governance.

And, though the lack of a way to shut a filibuster down was not remedied for seventy-five years, minorities used the filibuster more to annoy the majority than to block its agenda.

They decided, instead, to make a show of trying to block the agenda and hope that voters would blame Democrats for the painfully slow economic recovery — which, as it turned out, they did.

It was the first weekend of the new Congress, and Senate Democratic leaders insisted on a Sunday vote to signal that with their expanded majority they had less patience for efforts by Republicans to block their agenda.

It came at a time when the Bush administration, seemingly intent on hostilities with Iraq, faced increasingly determined international opposition from some of its oldest allies, who are trying to block its agenda at the Security Council.

The advisers recognized that Republicans were trying to block his agenda by questioning whether he had the leadership skills or the tenacity to get done what his first campaign had promised.