For blocks at a time, the ground-floor spaces would-be spaces would-bee cinder-blocked storefronts werepainted with the phone numbers of leasing brokers.
These employers give scientists the intellectual time and space to dream up novel ways of blocking, shutting down, or modifying disease targets.
Unseasonal snow over the past couple of weeks has blocked roads, shut airports, closed schools and brought the army out to help clear Edinburgh's streets.
The situation was replicated across the arts: if writing, theatre, film, music, or architecture was not predictable and primitive, it was deemed "alien" and blocked or shut down.
Earlier this month protesters in several towns in Punjab, Pakistan's wealthiest province, smashed windscreens, blocked motorways, shut down markets and set fire to the offices of parliamentarians and an electric utility.
The government has censored virtually every source of alternative information, including the opposition's TV station, dozens of community radios, and as many as 50,000 websites that were blocked or shut down by the authorities.
Hordes of protesters blocked traffic, shut down bridges, and offered up plenty of scorn for police across New York City late Thursday, a second straight night of rage after a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict the cop whose choke hold killed Eric Garner in July.
As a result, it will be virtually impossible to block or shut them down".
So, if I'd wanted to "block" or "shut down" free speech, I would've gone to Time Square station with black spraypaint.
The federal government would be blocked from shutting down or fining unscrupulous dealerships, unless prosecutors could prove egregious offenders "willfully" intended to break a law they specifically knew about.
