Sentence examples for blocked supply from inspiring English sources

And in this context, Fraser – the Coalition opportunist who once blocked supply for nine months to bring down Whitlam – unexpectedly emerges as a human rights hero.

The petrol industry, which has been stockpiling supplies, played down reports of blocked supplies.

It also blocked supplies and personnel from the South, forcing all the factories to stop production.

Pakistan announced late on Saturday that it had blocked supplies to Nato forces passing through the country.

It also blocked supplies and South Korean managers who were south of the border from entering the economic zone.

In an unprecedented step, the central Iraqi government in Baghdad — which has previously blocked supplies of arms to the Kurds for fear they well be used in a fight for independence from the rest of Iraq — delivered ammunition from its own stocks to Erbil.

This turned into a scandal and the Coalition announced plans to block supply in the Senate.

In Australia, the 1975 crisis is noteworthy because it totally breached the convention that an opposition will not block supply.

Few among even the most ardent of carbon tax supporters, for example, would want the Senate to block supply in response to Abbott's stand on carbon pricing.

The Coalition senators remained united, though several became increasingly concerned about the tactic of blocking supply.

Fraser told Kerr that the Opposition were determined to block supply.