Sentence examples for blocked against from inspiring English sources

Cases appear to have been brought against Democrats and blocked against Republicans to help Republicans win elections.

That was the only way to keep shots from being blocked against the long and limber men who stood at the back of Dallas's zone defense.

Saban typically employs Foster on kicks of 42 yards or longer and Jeremy Shelley, who had a kick blocked against L.S.U., on shorter attempts.

William Dalrymple and Jeanette Winterson being told to behave when they blocked against the award of a single prize, on the grounds that it was impossible to judge fiction against nonfiction.

The Report of the Special Commission to inquire into the condition of the salmon fisheries of Scotland, published in 1871, informed us that the River Tay alone had some 115 miles of river blocked against the salmon by the two natural obstructions of the Tummel Falls and the Falls of Garry on the two important Tay tributaries from which the respective waterfalls are named.

Moreover, at DC-conditions, charges cannot carry the electric current if they are blocked against potential wells which are, inevitably, present inside molecule due to several factors as we will see later.

Wright and her team-mates rallied and produced some impressive blocking against the European champions Ukraine.

"On that play," Fletcher said, "they had max protection, seven men blocking against our four-man rush".

Blocking against virus-mediated inhibition of the innate response may lead to the future development of effective vaccines.

When we think of book-burners, we mostly think of backward, reactionaries blocking against dissent, free thought, radical art, or progressive political reform.

Bober, who relied almost entirely on his right arm and shoulder while blocking against the Redskins, was ecstatic at the possibility he could return this season.