Sentence examples for block construction of the from inspiring English sources

Community residents tried to block construction of the 46-story Trump SoHo, claiming it would tower over everything around it.

Mayor Lonegan said he asked Teaneck officials to join in a suit to block construction of the second track but they declined.

Onaga, who was elected in December 2014 vowing to stop the Futenma move, recently agreed to resume talks with Tokyo, bringing a temporary halt to legal attempts to block construction of the new base.

Mr. Hoving started a taxpayer's suit, in Tiffany's name, to block construction of the Huntington Hartford sidewalk cafe in Central Park, only to have it called off by Genesco, bub then he took over the suit personally.

In April, Mamaroneck officials tried to block construction of the store by enacting a law that the town's approval was required for any large development projects in its neighboring areas of New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Harrison and Rye.

The 63-year-old Native American was one of hundreds of activists gathered to block construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on Thursday, when police with tanks and riot gear surrounded them and began making mass arrests.

So, somehow, the Fresh Kills legislation included a provision blocking construction of the Brooklyn incinerator.

Because it is so close to the water, the site could be susceptible to flooding, so state officials, citing that risk, blocked construction of the $27 million school this summer.

I thought about the last time I tried to protest about something environmental, when a student friend took me to the sacred woodlands to join the tree-people who were blocking construction of the Newbury bypass in 1996.

In a decision that reflects the importance of water and environmental concerns for California's rapid growth, a state court judge has temporarily blocked construction of the single largest housing development ever approved by Los Angeles County, a 22,000-home 22,000-homemunity on the Ventura County border.

Native Hawaiian protesters once again blocked construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.55 billion project to build one of the world's largest optical telescopes atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano.