Sentence examples for block the payment from inspiring English sources

Ms. Paul said she decided to pay only the 23, but the losers persuaded a Georgia judge to block the payment.

The commission said the budget was always adjusted to take account of countries' gross national incomes but provoked a furious response from David Cameron, who said he would block the payment by the due date of 1 December.

The US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, attempted to block the payments last week.

Dozens of employees have hired lawyers, bracing for a fight if AIG or government officials try to block the payments.

Representative Edward J. Markey, who is chairman of one committee investigating the spill, suggested that the government would take action to block the payments if necessary.

German officials said they had no legal basis to block the payments, made by India to the Hamburg-based Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank, or E.I.H.

House Republicans sued the Obama administration to block the payments on grounds that Congress had not voted separately to appropriate the money, even though the A.C.A. had authorized them.

When word spread earlier this year that American International Group had paid more than $165 million in retention bonuses at the division that had precipitated the company's downfall, outrage erupted, with employees getting death threats and President Obama urging that every legal avenue be pursued to block the payments.

It deposited $539m£319m9m) due to them on 30 June but Griesa blocked the payment.

With this order, it has blocked the payment to Russia of DM98m held at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Germany's state-owned development bank.

Bill Clinton invoked the OAS accusation to justify the crippling economic embargo against Haiti that persists to this day, and which effectively blocks the payment of about $500m in international aid.