Until now Burma has blocked significant amounts of aid and refused visas to foreign specialists, apparently afraid their presence could loosen the regime's 46-year grip on power.
Officials counted on the hydroelectric dam to block large amounts of sediment in the Susquehanna from reaching the bay and smothering aquatic grasses and affecting other wildlife.
The country has been on the end of sharp criticism from human rights groups for blocking large amounts of content from its citizens - a system which has been dubbed the "Great Firewall of China".
For Murdoch, threatening to block Google amounts to a game of media chicken, analysts said.
It's good when you are planning your week to block out amounts of time when you don't meet with people and can't be interrupted.
In 2012, millions of Americans joined forces to successfully defeat two draconian copyright bills -- PIPA and SOPA -- which would have rewired the Internet to block enormous amounts of online content, including content that didn't violate existing copyright laws.
Or it could be a result of a large number of comet-like objects swarming around the star, blocking large amounts of light at regular and/or irregular intervals.
Consequently, I wholeheartedly support Vermont's plan to shift from a weighted (districts get more state funds to educate students in more restrictive settings) to a census-based (districts receive a block amount of special education dollars based on historical trends and allocate as needed) approach to distributing funding for children with disabilities.
The amount of active warps is decided by the number of allocated threads per block, amount of available registers, and amount of shared memory.
The total number of blocks amounted to 2 (spellers) × 2 (attention) × 3 (unique blocks) = 12.
By contrast, verapamil shows both inactivation- and use-dependent block amounting to an approximately threefold increase in block compared with tonic levels at −90 mV preconditioning, as illustrated in Figure 6 that plots the concentration response curves for each Cav channel.
