Sentence examples for block floors from inspiring English sources

The palace consists of a total of 150 rooms, the principal of which are panelled with wood block floors.

Girls who have spent their days looking only at the cement block floors beneath their feet, in abject fear of making eye contact between the hours of 8-3, look up.

Nonflammable block floors (but not the whole arena).

A Pit. Flammable block floors (but not the whole arena).

In fact, Senate Republicans on Monday voted to block floor debate on the latest attempt at a reform bill.

Mr. Schumer added that in the House the administration might be better able to block floor action.

With the exception of Mr. Nelson's opposition, the result was expected: Republicans had warned for more than a week that they would block floor debate of the legislation.

As examples, Mr. Klein, from the Bronx, said he was confident that Republicans would not block floor votes on legislation to raise the state's minimum wage, change a marijuana-possession law that has led to a high number of stop-and-frisk arrests and create a private fund to help the children of illegal immigrants pay college tuition.

On the face of it, the painful decision by House speaker John Boehner to finally overrule his conservative wing and allow a deal to be passed with the help of Democrats could herald more such violations of the so-called Hastert rule – an unofficial doctrine that requires the speaker to block floor votes that are not supported by a majority of his own party.

But conservative efforts to pass such legislation have failed in the past because Democrats had enough votes to block floor debate in the state Senate.

He also came under fire for blocking floor debate, and even some of his Democratic colleagues suggested that he was stifling the Senate.