Sentence examples for blocked discussion from inspiring English sources

Environmental advocates filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against a small town in Broome County, N.Y., whose board of supervisors has blocked discussion of fracking at public meetings.

Germany blocked discussion of specific bailout mechanisms, forcing the leaders of the 27 countries in the European Union to turn their attention instead to prodding Greece to get its finances under control, promising stringent monitoring of Greece's tough austerity program.

Germany blocked discussion of bailout mechanisms, forcing the 27-country bloc to turn its attention instead to prodding Greece to get its finances under control, promising stringent monitoring in hopes of reassuring nervous bond market investors that Greece's tough austerity program will work.

We have included a discussion about myofiber size declines observed in our study to data obtained in other studies from the literature where nerve regeneration was totally blocked (Discussion).

After a blizzard of coverage in the days after the crash — including reports of a botched rescue and efforts to bury one of the train carriages — the censors blocked discussions of the topic on microblog services.

Today the European Union was against the Chinese motion to block discussion.

The Senate passed a similar measure this week blocking discussion of the benefits during this year's labor negotiations.

In 1995, the United States succeeded for the only time in defeating the Chinese government's procedural vote to block discussion.

By blocking discussion of these issues, the symbolic commitment to high-speed rail in the north is more likely to protect London than redress the imbalance.

Mr. Koh told reporters last month that Washington had the "best chance since 1995" to defeat the Chinese motion to block discussion.

The intention is to have them adopted in good Stalinist style with "fast track" procedures designed to block discussion and allow only the choice of yes or no (hence yes).