Sentence examples for block something from inspiring English sources

It is extremely difficult to block something that has zero momentum and no one pushing it.

"So you add knowledge and insights, and I think to block something too early is a mistake," he said.

"Londoners and businesses overwhelmingly back the Night Tube, and trying to block something that will transform our city, and create more jobs, is short sighted.

"[We] have learned collectively," Classe spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Duboisaidid last week, "that if we mobilise and try to block something, it's possible to do it".

And it's easier – by far – to block something bad than to persuade hostile or risk-averse politicians and regulators to change policies.

We try to push back whenever we get requests to block something.

"The term 'gatekeeper' assumes we're blocking something worthy coming through," Ergatoudis insists.

He feeds off of blocking, something many receivers hate to do or cannot do well.

Sessions is generally well liked on both sides of the aisle but has always been considered an ideological outlier, more successful at blocking something than orchestrating its passage.

"Passing on" or "blocking" something suggests there is a physical connection between the two things, that inaction allows the Chancellor in London to set or influence the Scottish rate.

All pathways toward the attainment of nuclear weapons by this regime must be blocked, something which the nuclear agreement does not do.