Sentence examples for body blocked from inspiring English sources

The European Commission, the European Union's executive body, blocked a takeover of the Finnish paper producer Metsa Tissue by its Swedish competitor SCA Molnlycke.

He lay there, numb, in shock, terrified but so full of adrenaline that his body blocked out most of the pain.

He was elected to the Senate in 1996, a decade after that same body blocked his nomination by President Ronald Reagan to a Federal District Court judgeship amid accusations of racial insensitivity.

Then he walked up to the camera and his body blocked the lens and it was the most out-of-body experience I've ever had when we watched the film dailies (the unedited footage) the day after he'd passed away," Lachmann said.

The body blocked all four proposed gun-related amendments – two by Democrats and two by Republicans – to a spending bill.

Investigators believe that the mid-April blaze in Graz began when large amounts of burning fat from a 440-pound woman's body blocked an air filter, which in turn caused the filter system to overheat, Fox News reports.

A few minutes passed, the store opened and in rushed the shoppers, moving through like tourists in Pamplona, pushing, body blocking, knocking the racks off balance.

The potential of the bio-NCP as a PTX carrier is highlighted by the in-vitro tests with monocytes, which tend to promote phagocytosis in foreign particles or molecules in the human body, blocking them to reach target tissues.

He also knew that at some point the second group of divers would find Huotarinen's body blocking their way.

"Gwyneth's bodyguards blocked my re-entry despite my assurance I was a just an author and pointing at my name tag, 'No!' they growled, body blocking me.

Second, a zebra trying to make it to the other side of a stream, caught by the current; again a hippo surfaced, this time creating a solid wall with his body, blocking the current and allowing the zebra to pass.