Sentence examples for blocking construction of a from inspiring English sources

Last month, the Bush administration handed the tribe a big victory by blocking construction of a casino by a rival tribe that would have drained off much of the Coushattas' business.

Mr. Diekman is outraged about the particulars of the energy crunch, including the prices for fuel and fertilizer that are battering his 3,500-acre 3,500-acremillet farm just north of Cheyenne wheat, and the lack of electricity-transmilletn capacity that is blocking construction ofarmwind-turbine plant on his property.

A Superior Court judge ordered the Bergen County sheriff today to stop blocking construction of a new county jail but backed the sheriff's demand that other top county officials meet with him to explain why the jail project has taken longer than expected and is millions of dollars over budget.

Though federal law makes blocking construction of a house of worship very difficult, in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal Justice Department opened more than 28 investigations of efforts to interfere with the construction of mosques and Islamic centers, according to department statistics.

But now Ikea has a more serious problem: the city of Moscow is blocking construction of an overpass that the company was building to ease the flow of traffic into its new store.

In addition, another proposition that would block construction of a major new regional airport in Orange County appeared headed for success.

A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block construction of a new Yankee Stadium, lawyers for the Yankees and the city said yesterday.

At the same time, Mr. Allen is asking the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to block construction of a 10-story building in his Upper East Side neighborhood because the building is "aesthetically wrong".

In a last-ditch effort to block construction of a controversial natural gas pipeline in northeastern Pennsylvania, campaigners urged an interstate regulator on Friday to review the project's environmental impact.

(I'm sorry to say that the long effort to block construction of a wind farm off Cape Cod — which may finally be over thanks to the Obama administration — played right into that caricature).

The state was set back in its efforts to block construction of a nuclear storage site on an Indian reservation near Salt Lake City when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it did not have to consider the environmental impact of a terrorist strike on the site.