Sentence examples for block efforts from inspiring English sources

This allows them to block efforts at reform that might erode their wealth and influence.

Another is that it may be able to block efforts to diversify energy supplies.

Under exisiting law, the president can block efforts by American victims of terrorism to collect damages from foreign countries.

Jewish and Muslim organisations have worked together to block efforts to ban kosher and halal slaughter, as well as circumcision.

They consistently went to court to block efforts by states to put a stop to predatory lending.

At a rally with hundreds of supporters in La Paz, the capital, Mr. Morales accused the protesters of trying to block efforts to help the poor.

Mr. Graham has sensibly decided that it helps neither the planet, the country nor his party to block efforts to solve the problem of global warming.

However, even as voucher advocates began planning long-term strategy yesterday, New York's legislative leadership vowed to block efforts to start a voucher program in the state.

They retarded the growth of the labor movement and tried to block efforts to unionize in the South, suspecting, rightly, that unions were motors of racial integration.

Other countries are often desperate enough that they will do anything they can to block efforts by someone upstream that puts them at a disadvantage.

South American and West African countries rallied to block efforts by Japan to reopen the debate; Japan, like China, has long opposed restrictions on fishing.