Sentence examples for blocking role from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia, widely seen as playing a blocking role in the talks, has won the award most days so far.

Those troops played a blocking role that left the Qaeda fugitives only one escape route, to the south, over the mountains to Pakistan.

Perhaps because Ukrainian energy oligarchs, who have strong  connections to Mr Yanukovych and to Gazprom, are playing a behind-the-scenes blocking role.

"As long as I'm on the right guy and not getting anybody killed, I'm happy," Pascoe said of his blocking role.

The blocking role of the Senate in this term of government should sway some on the right to go with the LNP amid the inevitably shrinking minor party vote after the short-lived popularity of PUP, he figures.

On the other hand, the blocking role of the BBB is problematic because drugs used to treat many diseases of the central nervous system are unable to cross this highly specific barrier [30].

During his quick trip, the prime minister sought to reassure other nations that the United States will not block a role for the United Nations in an occupied Iraq.

But Mr. Assad ordered most mosques closed before Ramadan began, trying to block their role as a meeting place to organize protests.

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been blocked: their role in Iran's recent upheaval clearly spooked China's leaders.

Since the PfI2 mutated proteins are able to bind PP1 but unable to inhibit its function we sought to determine whether the pre-injection of deleted or mutated PfI2 proteins may block the role of wild PfI2.

The ghrelin signal released in the portal vein might block the role of oral glucose on the hepatic branch of afferent vagus nerve and diminish its ability to induce incretin effect.