Sentence examples for blocking the opening of from inspiring English sources

A more drastic measure like blocking the opening of Parliament, for example, could risk a dangerous backlash.

Somalis fleeing famine and conflict have pushed the population of the world's biggest refugee settlement past 400,000 for the first time, with the host Kenyan government apparently blocking the opening of an already built overspill camp.

In what experts in the field of environmental justice said was the first time a permitting agency was found to be in violation of civil rights law, Judge Stephen M. Orlofsky issued a preliminary injunction blocking the opening of the plant, and ordered the agency to conduct a more thorough review of the permit application.

According to a senior American official, Mr. Obama used his private meeting Sunday afternoon with Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan's newly empowered prime minister, to "express disappointment" that Pakistan is blocking the opening of negotiations on a treaty that would halt production of new nuclear material around the world.

In 1987, Mr. Nixon blocked the opening of 42,000 documents deemed releaseable by archivists.

This year, Mr. García Albiol tried unsuccessfully to block the opening of a new mosque in Badalona.

The first was that a wave of negative publicity threatened to alienate consumers and block the opening of new stores.

In 1989 Romans tried to block the opening of a McDonald's near the Spanish steps, complaining of "disgusting odours".

Mr. McMahon speaks of his role as a lawyer in a suit to seek to block the opening of a power plant in the district.

Laws to protect small shops block the opening of new supermarkets and promote local and regional cartels and the easy bullying of farmers.

In 1997, Rabbi Levin went so far as to ask a federal court to block the opening of the Museum of Jewish Heritage A A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in Lower Manhattan.