Sentence examples for blocks the payment from inspiring English sources
Bill Clinton invoked the OAS accusation to justify the crippling economic embargo against Haiti that persists to this day, and which effectively blocks the payment of about $500m in international aid.
Ms. Paul said she decided to pay only the 23, but the losers persuaded a Georgia judge to block the payment.
With this order, it has blocked the payment to Russia of DM98m held at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Germany's state-owned development bank.
The commission said the budget was always adjusted to take account of countries' gross national incomes but provoked a furious response from David Cameron, who said he would block the payment by the due date of 1 December.
It is America's courts (the bonds were issued under American law) that blocked the payment, at the behest of the tiny minority of owners of bonds from 2001 who did not accept the restructuring Argentina offered them in 2005 and again in 2010.
The US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, attempted to block the payments last week.
Dozens of employees have hired lawyers, bracing for a fight if AIG or government officials try to block the payments.
Representative Edward J. Markey, who is chairman of one committee investigating the spill, suggested that the government would take action to block the payments if necessary.
German officials said they had no legal basis to block the payments, made by India to the Hamburg-based Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank, or E.I.H.
House Republicans sued the Obama administration to block the payments on grounds that Congress had not voted separately to appropriate the money, even though the A.C.A. had authorized them.
