Sentence examples for blocked for a second from inspiring English sources

Also on Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked for a second time a Democratic plan to raise the liability limit for oil spills to $10 billion from $75 million.

The historic dockyard at Chatham, Kent, which was once the home of Tudor warship building and the birthplace of Nelson's HMS Victory, has seen its bid to become a Unesco World Heritage Site blocked for a second time.

Back at Kailyn's hovel, she decides to torture herself by calling her mom for a second time, and getting blocked for a second time.

Wells were blocked for a second time in the same conditions with LTNTC solution (0.1% non-fat dry milk in 10 mM TRIS-base/HCl buffer containing 140 mM NaCl, 5 mM CaCl2 and 0.05% Tween-20, pH 7.4).

Cooked stories include your feelings, reactions, inner thoughts, colorful descriptions, other people's reactions, comparisons/analogies, etc. Let's take the previous example and really add a bunch of ingredients to it: "Last week I was riding a bus to work, and out of the corner of my eye I saw this massive shape moving towards me…I honestly think the sun was blocked for a second.

The director of operations for the Red Cross, Pierre Krahenbuhl, said relief workers were blocked for a fourth day from helping civilians escape and from delivering emergency food aid.

The extenders' most recent home was in the "American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act"–the bill Senate Republicans blocked for a third time earlier this month.

Frank Garcia, playing with a back injury, had a third punt blocked for a net gain of 1 yard.

They suffered special teams breakdowns, having a punt blocked for a touchdown and giving up a first down on a fake punt that led to another Trojans touchdown.

Pyongyang blocked access for a second day on Thursday, and threatened to shut down the zone.

Charlton players are evidently out on the pitch with the words of manager Bob Peeters ringing in their ears as some nice, one touch passing ends with Morgan Fox finding Frederic Bulot in the area but his shot is blocked for the first of a succession of corners for the away side.