Sentence examples for board block from inspiring English sources
But other Republican officials have asserted that even if the Democrats on the board block the petition challenges, Mr. McCain should still be removed from the ballot in some of the upstate districts.
A review board blocked the termination of that teacher.
The board blocked a union election that had been scheduled for later this month.
But the board blocked the idea.Thus spurned, Mr Sperling found a new home for his idea at the University of San Francisco.
On Thursday, Democrats and moderate Republicans on the board blocked a proposal by social conservatives to reinstate it.
A white board blocked off the passage that led to the short corridor where the bins jammed with Santa letters usually resided.
As it turned out, the board blocked Dr. Hamer's candidacy, saying that the deadline for submitting his name had passed.
After Mr Pischetsreider took the rap for the Rover debacle, workers' representatives on the BMW board blocked Mr Reitzle's succession.Ford then hired Mr Reitzle to run its posh brands, and he installed himself in swanky London offices in Berkeley Square.
Stockdale retired from the Navy in 1979 to become president of the Citadel, a civilian military college in South Carolina, but quit a year later when the board blocked his efforts to rein in the school's out-of-control culture of hazing.
Last month, however, the board blocked China Nonferrous Metal Mining from buying more than 50percentt of Lynas Corp., a prospector for rare earths, amid concerns about Chinese control of the market for rare-earth minerals.
It comes after a corporate contest that included the rejection of a first offer from PepsiCo, a preliminary bid from the Coca-Cola Company that was rescinded after Coke's board blocked the deal and maneuvers by Danone of France that were eventually abandoned.
