Sentence examples for block prominent from inspiring English sources

Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio used threats and intimidation in recent days to block prominent Democrats from backing" Teachout and Wu, Fred Dicker, the New York Post 's veteran Albany columnist, reported.

They descended furthered in the mid-2000s by filibustering for the first time to block prominent George W. Bush nominees to the federal appeals courts.

A former boss of what is now the Co-operative Group haccusedsed its leaders of blocking prominent members from standing for the board and undermining the principles of the 171-year-old mutual society.

Last year, while working for the Justice Department, Mr. Litvack built a case to block a prominent advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo.

Should the PES emerge as the largest group in the European Parliament, it will try to block him.But prominent federalists are also unimpressed.

Big issues -- immigration, fiscal harmony, income inequality -- are on the chopping block because prominent leaders don't have the guts to have a conversation and push them forward.

In Hudson, a group opposing the cement plant only a few miles away anonymously placed eight cinder blocks in prominent locations around town with one-word labels that together formed the questions: "Who will really pay?

The organization also has a long history of litigation challenging government encroachments on freedom of expression, including the blocking of prominent writers and scholars from visiting the United States due to their critical speech pursuant to the USA PATRIOT Act, and the mass warrantless wiretapping of international electronic communications.

Rather than dividing the aeromagnetic data into overlapping subregions of equal dimension on a uniform grid, we selected subregions of dimension 55 × 55 km across the entire magnetic map and additional random blocks at prominent magnetic anomaly regions.

Our study also showed that Hox-linked paralogous synteny blocks had prominent paralogous conservation of not only coding regions but also noncoding regions.

In the case of blocking, a prominent stimulus essentially absorbed all of the credit for reinforcement, leaving none to strengthen the originating response.