Sentence examples for blocking about from inspiring English sources

Switzerland is still blocking about $450 million in Mubarak family bank accounts pending resolution of the Egyptian government's claims.

According to the Treasury Department, the United States is currently blocking about $4 billion in assets held by terrorists or terrorist countries in United States banks.

On the street, the civil servants who were massed around the government-owned banks, waiting to be paid — foreign banks closed after the regional central bank cut Mr. Gbagbo off, instantly blocking about 93 percent of bank accounts, diplomats and bankers said — were restive last week, but not rioting.

Police are blocking about students in the second city, Gitega, from joining the demonstrations, residents said.

"Ladbrokes was blocking about one million IP addresses on a daily basis," he says, describing the scale of the scraping effort directed against the site.

Blocking about one third of the atrial ICa with 0.84 μM Nif caused 34 ± 8 and 41 ± 9% inhibition of atrial contraction in WA and CA fish, respectively.

The painter becomes blocked about the portrait and instead sketches Effie.

Indeed, the ICO's Simon Rice noted that browser controls only blocked about 70% of cookies.

And, even though Clinton generally picked moderate nominees, after 1995 Republicans in the Senate blocked about a third of them.

It blocked about a mile of State Route 530 near the town of Oso, about 55 miles north of Seattle.

The government of Congo's president, Laurent Kabila, has continually blocked about 100 United Nations monitors in Congo from visiting several areas.