Sentence examples for blocking expansion from inspiring English sources

Tougher statutes should permit drastic steps — like shutting down farms or blocking expansion — when watersheds become threatened, they argue.

Or by blocking expansion and offering alternatives, alternatives that will take well beyond 2014 to enact and implement, if they ever are?

A dysfunctional legal system allows, for example, a single farmer to inconvenience tens of millions of people by blocking expansion of Tokyo's Narita airport over a tiny plot of land.

While critiquing the law for its entanglement with the profit-voracious insurance industry, we should fight for quality healthcare for everyone -- definitely including the people who live in states where right-wing officials are blocking expansion of Medicaid coverage.

But Republican majorities in both houses of the General Assembly blocked expansion.

Planning officials blocked expansion of a passenger terminal at Coventry airport, for example, because the government had said it played only a niche role for freight airlines.

Convinced that the government's plan is a huge overreaction and that designation of the area as a Superfund site would frighten away tourists and new businesses, many towns have joined a lawsuit to block expansion of the cleanup.

USTelecom, which represents telecoms giants Verizon, AT&T and others, wants the FCC to block expansion of two popular municipally owned high-speed internet networks, one in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the other in Wilson, North Carolina.

In the meantime, the attorneys general from New Jersey and Pennsylvania announced yesterday that they would join the lawsuit filed by five other Big East members against the A.C.C., Miami and Boston College seeking to block expansion plans.

June 2008 Conservative opposition leader David Cameron criticises the Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, for "pig-headedly" pressing ahead with a third runway and indicates a Tory government would likely block expansion plans.

Outraged homeowners argued they had been betrayed by politicians who pledged to block expansion before being put into office — only to change their minds later.