Sentence examples for blocked their progress from inspiring English sources

At William Street, where in 1972 army barricades blocked their progress into the city centre, the procession turned in towards the Guildhall.

Islamist parties have long blamed western powers for blocking their progress, charging that they have actively colluded with oppressive Arab governments out of fear of political Islam.

How many people died remains unknown, though what is clear is that most were not students in Tiananmen, but ordinary citizens of the capital trying to stop the armoured vehicles after previous successes at blocking their progress to the square.

The immigrants first exploded in rage when reports emerged in 1996 that Israel was secretly dumping blood donated by Ethiopians for fear that it was contaminated with H.I.V. Immigration experts here say that the Ethiopian-Israelis do face some racism and prejudice, but that racism is not the main problem blocking their progress.

The problem is when they come to the end of their apprenticeship, there is a massive, massive wall that is blocking their progress into the first-team".

Plenty of women apply for such positions, but there is an obstacle blocking their progress.

A good analogy is that it is like driving a car: be courteous, use your turn signals, and let others merge in front of you, rather than speeding up to block their progress.

Perhaps, given his remarks on women, it's a blessing that he didn't go into a riff about the lack of African-American or Hispanic traders; prejudice continues to block their professional progress in much the same way as women's horizons are often stunted.

"We now see the Tories have blocked this progress for their own narrow political interest.

Like the painfully slow movement of his limo through the blocked arteries of New York, their progress is incremental.

The normal cyclone tracks are then considerably modified; atmospheric depressions (areas of low pressure) are either blocked in their eastward progress or diverted to the north or south of the anticyclone.