Sentence examples for block an attack from inspiring English sources

Republican legislators said the amendment was needed to block an attack on freedom and individual rights by Congress.

(According to the rules, the only way to block an attack — besides simply refusing to participate — is by carrying a bottle).

Deng became internationally famous in July 2011 after leaping to block an attack by protester Jonathan May-Bowles, who threw a pie at her husband during a British parliamentary committee hearing into the News International phone-hacking scandal.

Private persons can never rightly intend precisely to harm or kill, though they can knowingly bring about harm or death as a proportionate side-effect of intending to block an attack (3.4.1 above).

Know how to block an attack.

Defensively, you can use it to block an attack, and ensnare the opponent's fist, foot or weapon in the process by wrapping your object around it.

Existing defenses, such as firewalls and antivirus-style programs, explained Flynn, are focused on blocking an attack by detecting malicious code when it is deployed.

Cameron is understood to have blocked an attack ad – a pastiche of the party's 2015 general election poster which showed Ed Miliband tucked inside the breast pocket of Alex Salmond.

Separately, David Cameron was reported to have blocked an attack ad – a pastiche of the party's 2015 general election poster which showed Ed Miliband tucked inside the breast pocket of Alex Salmond.

On Wednesday, Russia's state security agency, the F.S.B., claimed that it had blocked an attack on Crimea by "sabotage-terrorist groups" sponsored by the Ukrainian government, though two Russian soldiers were killed.

You might want to use your forearm to assist in blocking an attack as well.