Sentence examples for blocked at a time from inspiring English sources

That aside, what is harder to understand is why Mrs. Ashton's attempts to establish a strong strategic dialogue with Turkey, separate from E.U. accession talks, should be blocked at a time when the Union needs all the help it can get in forging a coherent strategy toward the Middle East.

He was almost as tough this time around, but what was impressively different was the Yankee batters' patient, one-Lego-block-at-a-time approach, which produced a single run in the second and another in the third, and two more in the fifth.

But in 2009, his expected ascent to the board was blocked at the same time an ally, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, was expelled in a purge.

For blocks at a time, the ground-floor spaces — would-be storefronts — were cinder-blocked shut, and spray-painted with the phone numbers of leasing brokers.

"A few blocks at a time".

"One block at a time, with enough guys?" he said.

I began walking seventy blocks at a time or splurging on taxis.

They have been able to get only one unnatural protein building block at a time substituted for a natural one.

For blocks at a time, the ground-floor spaces would-be spaces would-bee cinder-blocked storefronts werepainted with the phone numbers of leasing brokers.

Short for "one block off the grid", it aims to convince homeowners to switch to solar energy one block at a time, by organising them into buying clubs.

He could walk only one block at a time before he had to stop to rest at a bench for 10 to 20 minutes.