Sentence examples for blocked from use from inspiring English sources

In Canada, for instance, Olestra was blocked from use as a food additive.

In some instances this might be administered via "restricted" cards – which presumably are blocked from use on anything other than the prescribed list.

At the time, the iPhone and AT&T were in the news because it had become apparent that the video chat platform Skype was blocked from use on what was fast becoming the world's favorite smartphone (an AT&T demand, it was later learned, that kept people chatting on plan minutes rather than on free Internet services).

However, two stores, one in Richmond, Virginia and one in LA, confirmed that Facebook and MySpace have both been blocked from use on in-store computers.

Palestinians were blocked from using new roads constructed to facilitate travel for settlers.

Blocked from using one Internet host, WikiLeaks simply jumped to another.

"Yukos is blocked from using about half of its monthly revenue," Steven Theede, the chief executive, said in the statement.

The women said their passports were taken and they were blocked from using telephones or having access to money.

The procedure is reversed on health information: companies are blocked from using any of that information unless a customer checks a box or otherwise gives permission.

The Iranians are still blocked from using American banks, an important transit point for international capital, because of non-nuclear-related sanctions imposed by the United States.

Early Sunday, the situation remained tense, with civilian cars blocked from using the roads, shops closed and the police guarding every crossroad as helicopters roared overhead.