This weekend, in a move applauded by campaigners, the Home Secretary said she would block moves by the Ugandan government to force the extradition of Ugandan gay asylum-seekers who had fled to the UK.
Lawmakers are blocking moves by the Hong Kong government to donate earthquake relief funds to the mainland authorities, says Apple Daily.
In a setback for Washington, the U.N. narrowly blocked moves by the U.S. and other countries Thursday to approve a global ban on human cloning because the proposal also would have constrained stem cell research.
Tissue blocks were moved by a precooled forceps.
Some diplomats in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, which hosted the conference, said that China pressured Cambodia, considered a close ally of China, to block moves by some of the other 10 participating nations toward issuing a united statement.
No country forced its hand on emission cuts in the negotiations, and it was itself comprehensively split, with countries such as Poland and even Germany reportedly blocking moves by Britain and others to put the cuts on the table.
A screen, as employed in basketball strategy, is a blocking move by an offensive player, by standing beside or behind a defender, to free a teammate to shoot, or receive a pass.
In the Senate, lawmakers have not gone as far as the House in pushing a bill to block the move by the manufacturers.
The House of Commons has blocked a move by the House of Lords to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in the upcoming European Union membership referendum.
MPs pledged to block any moves by the government to introduce them on to English streets in the event of a repeat of the August riots.
