Sentence examples for blocking their progress to from inspiring English sources
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.
Late on Friday, hundreds of people attempted to prevent the army from breaking up their encampments - some lay on the ground in front of the tanks to block their progress.
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.
Organizations and their leaders are stuck, blocking their own progress by clinging to leadership styles and methods that are no longer relevant or effective.
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.
So it looks like an obdurate Netanyahu blocking progress to peace.
Israeli officials said they are concerned that the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, is trying to block progress in order to push the Americans to intervene more forcefully.
Senate and House leaders tried everything to block progress, but to no avail.
But the opponents of stem cell research, in their determination to block the progress of science, are using the old law to new purposes.
Their attempts to block social progress ultimately failed when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
