Sentence examples for blocking projects from inspiring English sources

After 1990, even blocking projects was largely beyond Mr. Ferrer's power.

Mr. Campbell has angered some developers, industrialists and state and city officials by blocking projects that would consume open space.

Russia is also notorious for changing the laws for Westerners in the middle of the game, or blocking projects, creating a level of uncertainty that makes foreigners nervous.

While he has considered partnering with other ad blocking projects, he says they tend to have goals that could not be aligned with his mission.

"This new ozone regulation threatens to be the most expensive ever imposed on industry in America and could jeopardize recent progress in manufacturing by placing massive new costs on manufacturers and closing off counties and states to new business by blocking projects at the permitting stage," said NAM's president, Jay Timmons.

Johnson also attacked the Competition Commission for blocking Project Kangaroo, the joint initiative between the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, to create a video-on-demand site.

It has allowed rival businesses to threaten environmental lawsuits to block projects by competitors.

Which is why Mr Wolfowitz's decision to block projects makes sense.But it is not enough.

So in places like Long Branch, where the battle to block Applied's project was already emotion-drenched, the gloves have come off as anti-development groups try to block projects before the issue reaches the courts.

It included measures that created a formal system of checks and balances for developing and approving projects, and that gave authority to the Ministry of Finance to block projects that are not fiscally responsible.

MySpace also blocked Project Playlist earlier this year in March, but the company was able to evade the block with some success.