Sentence examples for blocking projects at the from inspiring English sources

"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.

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

Winston Chu, a prominent lawyer here, spent the last seven years leading the fight to block land-reclamation projects at the request of his mother, now 86, who disliked seeing changes in the heart of a city she loved.

We moved into a house a few blocks from the Marcy projects at the end of last summer.

TEXT BY OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, PHOTO BY BEN RITTER We moved into a house a few blocks from the Marcy projects at the end of last summer.

Vowing to block the project at a rally today, a coalition of civic leaders raised the specter of "flotillas of barges," noxious smokestack fumes, a "caravan" of garbage trucks and an incursion on the quality of life in these wooded North Shore hills.

They have deep-dyed villains who appear onstage to the sound of authorial hisses: notably Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose family compound in Hyannis looks out on the sound, and Mitt Romney, then governor of Massachusetts, who began nearly every speech on Cape Wind with "I support renewable energy" and then blocked the project at every turn.

It faced west with an access stairway flanked by two ramps that terminated in projecting masonry blocks at the top.

It was blocked at the last minute.

There are two big days on the block every year: a party called "Boys in the Hood" and, soon after, Tompkins Day, a block party at the project.

Donald J. Trump sued to block the project that was so clearly aimed at funneling gamblers to his rival's casino, but he relented when a U-turn was added that led to the Trump Marina.