Sentence examples for blocked from acquiring from inspiring English sources

It seems absurd that such potentially dangerous people are not subject to the same restrictions as convicted felons, domestic abusers and other risky characters blocked from acquiring weapons under the current background check law.

This outcome is fully predicted by the initial odor, thus the novel odor should be blocked from acquiring associative significance (Kamin, 1969).

In 2001, the Australian government blocked Royal Dutch Shell from acquiring Woodside Petroleum, citing the national interest.

However, the European commission has on three occasions blocked Ryanair from acquiring more shares.

The Americans never gave us anything, and they've blocked us from acquiring new weapons on our own".

The Justice Department blocked Staples from acquiring Office Depot in 1997 for fear of reducing competition.

The hearing in Oracle's suit, which seeks to block PeopleSoft from acquiring J.D. Edwards, is scheduled for July 16.

The 1968 Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had a mixed record in blocking states from acquiring atomic or thermonuclear weapons.

Chief among these is a standstill agreement that would block Validus from acquiring additional shares in Transatlantic while the two are in talks.

Mirant, which bought a minority stake in Bewag several years ago, had tried without success to block Vattenfall from acquiring the shares from E.on, one of western Germany's biggest power companies.

The court also struck down a broader Portuguese law that allows the government there to block foreigners from acquiring more than 10percentt of the shares in a wide variety of formerly state-owned companies.