Sentence examples for blocked from running from inspiring English sources
A popular opposition candidate, the vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has in effect been blocked from running through legal manoeuvres.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian hardliner who presided over a period of deepening and damaging sanctions, has been blocked from running for president in Iran's elections next year.
Woolfe was blocked from running in the previous contest to succeed Farage – for which he was the favourite – after submitting his forms 17 minutes late.
After that failed, the three sought to run for the House of Representatives, but were shunned by the white party establishment and blocked from running as independents.
The Ukip MEP was blocked from running in the previous contest to succeed Nigel Farage – for which he was the favourite – after submitting his forms 17 minutes late.
After the prominent reformist candidate Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was unceremoniously blocked from running for president, the movement turned to a centrist approved candidate, Hassan Rouhani, and carried him to a landslide victory.
I was nearing the halfway point, a defunct pump station that blocked me from running any farther.
It has been widely reported how the Guardian Council had blocked reformists from running for office in the last several presidential and, especially, parliamentary elections.
He was cashiered, but campaigned for and won the Colorado Party's presidential nomination, on a populist platform.In this section The man with the mighty microphone The last caudillo Motion of censure Out of stock ReprintsWhen the courts blocked him from running for president, an ally, Raúl Cubas, was elected in his place.
Supporters of one of the disqualified candidates, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a charismatic ultra-conservative and economic populist, turned out in large numbers to protest a clause in the military's "constitutional declaration" prohibiting any legal appeal of the decisions of the electoral commission that blocked him from running.
This weekend, Valls, once Hollande's most loyal ally, tried to block him from running again.
