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The Labour leader called for G4S to be blocked from getting new government contracts in the wake of the Games controversy.

A bill that would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples was blocked from getting a full vote in the State House of Representatives by Republican leaders, who knew Democrats had the votes to pass it.

Despite being regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats of his generation, he was blocked from getting the senior position he hoped for – in Paris, Washington or Delhi – and resigned from the Foreign Office.

In one case that drew considerable attention, the family of a US Marine killed in Iraq went to court in 2005 after being blocked from getting access to his Yahoo email account, with the company arguing that it could not release "private" information and that the account was "non-transferable" under terms of service.

With the New York Fire Department tending other fires on the peninsula, and also blocked from getting its trucks into Breezy Point by the high floodwaters, a small team of local residents and volunteer fire departments tried to fight the fire, even while stopping to rescue other residents seeking to flee the rising waters.

Throughout October, program officials pushed themselves to transport 50,000 tons of food into Afghanistan, and the country has stocks for the next month, but the private charities that are to distribute the food are blocked from getting it to the people who need it.

It's unfair to the other characters, and it's unfair to viewers, who are blocked from fully getting to know them.

The Weed and I were too well reared to yell anything back or run away, and besides, her car blocked ours from getting out.

The demonstrators were flanked by a wall of police officers, vehicles and motorcycles that blocked them from getting into the avenue or disrupting traffic on side streets.

On a neighboring bar stool, Patrick Delaney, 51, an insurance adjuster, told of how those same floodwaters blocked him from getting to his 86-year-old mother in their house on Beach 138th Street.

Today, Johnson lives alone in an apartment near her erstwhile sex lab: she has destroyed the research tapes from her days with Masters, regrets the degree he blocked her from getting and the more advantageous men she never wed.