They are also blocked from receiving unsolicited messages.
"For a period of eight years, all the nominees of the previous administration were blocked from receiving a hearing," Mr. Edwards said.
Major media groups such as the Associated Press, South Africa's e.tv, the US broadcasters CNN and MSNBC, and the BBC were all blocked from receiving accreditation.
He pointed to the fact that commercial golf clubs, along with massage parlors, racetracks and liquor stores, were blocked from receiving some federal relief funds after Hurricane Katrina.
Vociferous critics and campaign groups are liable to go on a blacklist, and be blocked from receiving any foreign funding – even while their leader goes abroad touting for international investment.
Asked whether Yanukovych or his entourage would be blocked from receiving visas to the country if they were to make such an application, the foreign ministry spokesman would only say that "Switzerland is following very closely the situation in Ukraine".
Several teammates tried calling but could not reach Strawberry, and Steinbrenner said today that when he tried calling Strawberry's home, the phone was blocked from receiving more calls.
More than 19,000 NGOs have been blocked from receiving funds from overseas for violations ranging from not filing the appropriate paperwork to engaging in "activities not conducive to the national interest" under the Narendra Modi government.
An announcement that EU migrants would be blocked from receiving job seekers allowance if, after six weeks, they have no reasonable prospect of finding work, was clearly an overture to Ukip sympathisers and immigration skeptics.
These add-ons also name the companies that were blocked from receiving your data (one social network, five advertising companies and six data brokers on a recent visit to CNN.com), which is instructive in itself.
Sampled areas were blocked from receiving Goeckerman treatment by daily application of Telfa pads (Covidien, Mansfield, MA) secured with micropore tape (3 M, St. Paul, MN).
