Mr. Sauerwein, the fire marshal, refused to comment, but Mr. Hoffman said the fire marshal had "indicated that that would address one of his concerns about blocking access and egress in the building if there should be an emergency".
Defeat: physically block access and movement or block/obscure the information that offenders want to collect.
The crowd of mostly young men and teenagers would approach the government wall blocking access to the ministry and hurl stones and the occasional Molotov cocktail at the riot police positioned on the other side of the wall.
Then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, meanwhile, wanted to build a high-rise development, blocking access to the waterfront and obscuring the view.
Mrs. Clinton said that the United States was "particularly concerned" by what she called "growing trends" in restricting civic organizations and blocking access to the Internet.
The biggest opposition so far has come from local ranchers and farmers, who say the fence is cutting off parts of their land and blocking access to the Rio Grande.
Most of my user accounts have disappeared, leaving me with just one account that has child protection turned on, making some applications inaccessible and blocking access to the user accounts section in the control panel.
Some delays were caused by unpredictable factors, from a car stalled near the Brooklyn Academy of Music to a delivery truck backing up and blocking access to the Pulaski Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Queens.
A police spokesman told the state news agency, RIA Novosti, that Mr. Navalny had been "invited" to discuss violations in holding the rally, including unauthorized use of amplifiers and blocking access to the area.
All the defendants, who are accused of placing a log in the road and blocking access to the site, denied the charge.
