Sentence examples for community block from inspiring English sources

Passage of Federal programs like general revenue-sharing & community block grants were threatened.

To get around that law, President Bush proposed the use of community block grants to provide the aid to Con Ed and Verizon.

After the Red River overflowed and damaged 90percentt of the houses and businesses in Grand Forks three years ago, federal officials awarded $175 million in community block grant money to rebuild the city.

Fortunately for Mr. Daley, the national economy turned in his favor and revenue came from the city's share of increases in the state income tax and federal gas tax, money for the police and community block grants.

He said that under President George W. Bush, the federal government had cut the community block grants to Scranton by 6 percent and he had hoped to receive more financing under a Democrat.

There is no reason for home heating, student aid or community block grants to be cut while there is a futile war in Afghanistan that enriches military contractors, a Pentagon budget that encourages fraud, subsidies for oil companies and a system that encourages corporations and financial institutions to avoid paying taxes.

In the 1950s, the community blocked plans by Robert Moses to drive a road through the square and wipe away redevelopment in some of the poorer southern neighborhoods.

The women of the community blocked a road leading to the canal, and the men hacked away at a dike, Mr. Somkiat said.

Energy company Chevron has been forced to suspend its plans to drill an exploration well for shale gas in the village of Pungesti in eastern Romania after the local community blocked the company's trucks from entering the area.

Something of China's traditional urban scale would be echoed by community blocks within the greater scheme, accommodating 100-300 families.Yet in China the idea appears to have run into the sands because of the radical approach it requires.

Supporters said one key benefit of the changed system would be to help communities block excessive and unwanted development.