Sentence examples for community blocking from inspiring English sources

Limited access to social care means vulnerable people left without it end up adding to the pressure on accident and emergency at one end of the hospital service and, because there is no safe place to discharge them in the community, blocking beds at the other.

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.

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

For five nights last week, gangs of residents from Valle de Chalco and its neighboring communities blocked a major east-west highway, stopping traffic there for hours each night to demand that the government install a drainage system in the canal to prevent its walls from collapsing.

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.

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.

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.