Sentence examples for blocking efforts on the from inspiring English sources

A rancorous congressional debate is still to come, but thirty-four senators have now vowed to support the deal, effectively blocking efforts on the Hill to eventually kill it.

Moss had a poor blocking effort on a critical play late in that game.

Bert Schouwenburg International Officer, GMB We are disturbed that David Cameron, co-chairing the UN high level panel on post-2015 development, is blocking efforts to focus on inequality (Report, May 15).

The eight-term congressman has spent most of his career playing on the racial and xenophobic fringes, drawing praise from Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, blocking efforts to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and displaying a Confederate battle flag on his congressional office desk.

The Netherlands blocked efforts by the European Union on Monday to extend new trade benefits to Serbia, despite a positive report by a United Nations prosecutor on Serbia's cooperation in tracking down accused war criminals.

The administration's opposition had threatened to block efforts to revise the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to raise the minimum age for soldiers to 18 from 15.

Congress has blocked efforts to lift the ban on the sale of military equipment.

NASCAR sued for $500 million on allegations that it blocked efforts to diversify the sport.

Russia and China, which had used their vetoes on the council to block efforts to adopt a resolution on the Syrian conflict, agreed to the statement.

The resulting confusion has blocked efforts to act on climate change.

Republicans also overturned the measure under a so-called "state of emergency," which blocked efforts to put it back on the ballot for 2018.