Sentence examples for blocking their progress from inspiring English sources

Islamist parties have long blamed western powers for blocking their progress, charging that they have actively colluded with oppressive Arab governments out of fear of political Islam.

How many people died remains unknown, though what is clear is that most were not students in Tiananmen, but ordinary citizens of the capital trying to stop the armoured vehicles after previous successes at blocking their progress to the square.

The immigrants first exploded in rage when reports emerged in 1996 that Israel was secretly dumping blood donated by Ethiopians for fear that it was contaminated with H.I.V. Immigration experts here say that the Ethiopian-Israelis do face some racism and prejudice, but that racism is not the main problem blocking their progress.

The problem is when they come to the end of their apprenticeship, there is a massive, massive wall that is blocking their progress into the first-team".

Plenty of women apply for such positions, but there is an obstacle blocking their progress.

At William Street, where in 1972 army barricades blocked their progress into the city centre, the procession turned in towards the Guildhall.

A good analogy is that it is like driving a car: be courteous, use your turn signals, and let others merge in front of you, rather than speeding up to block their progress.

Perhaps, given his remarks on women, it's a blessing that he didn't go into a riff about the lack of African-American or Hispanic traders; prejudice continues to block their professional progress in much the same way as women's horizons are often stunted.

Like the painfully slow movement of his limo through the blocked arteries of New York, their progress is incremental.

Those that deny this solid consensus put the future in jeopardy, often for partisan political reasons, and must be called out by faith leaders for their sin of blocking progress on addressing this great moral issue that impacts all life, God's creation.

Their progress was blocked at home, but they were lucky enough to have dual citizenship and dual options.