Sentence examples for blocking the passage of from inspiring English sources

Many borders also exist only in certain contexts – blocking the passage of people but not things.

Neophytou said she could not see any significant barriers blocking the passage of the bill, except the parliamentary timetable.

Plastics, in which thousands to millions of identical carbon-based molecules link together into long chains known as polymers, are generally insulators, blocking the passage of electrical currents.

Both organelles are bounded by an external membrane that serves as a barrier by blocking the passage of cytoplasmic proteins into the organelle.

Republicans are stalwartly committed to blocking the passage of tax increases, while Democrats insist that raising taxes is better than continuing to hack away at already drained public services.

When wax is produced too rapidly, it can accumulate, completely filling the outer-ear canal and blocking the passage of sound to the tympanic membrane, causing a painless impairment of hearing.

In 1899 Socialist deputies overturned the parliamentary ballot box to block the passage of a measure.

In other conformational states, they can block the passage of ions.

A long-nosed Game and Fish biologist nagged him about fences that blocked the passage of pronghorn.

Individual elements on the screen then block the passage of some of that illumination to create an image.

It has weakened elements of the Gun Control Act of 1968, and generally blocked the passage of major gun-control legislation for decades.