Sentence examples for device to block from inspiring English sources

Yeltsin responded by phoning Prosecutor General Aleksey Kazannik and instructing him to find a legal device to block the amnesty.

Taiwan brought the work of the body to a stop on Monday through a procedural device to block the nomination of a Chinese lawyer, Yuejiao Zhang, to the W.T.O.'s appellate body.

According to the Metropolitan police, thieves gain entry either by using a device to block the radio signals when a victim uses their electronic key to lock the vehicle, or by smashing the driver's side window.

It is an offence only under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to "knowingly use" such a device to block GPS signals – though the communications regulator Ofcom is looking to close some of the loopholes.

"The supreme court's unanimous opinion sends a strong signal that lower courts cannot use class certification as a procedural device to block investors from vindicating their statutory rights," Pace University law school professor Jill Gross told Reuters.

The MP for Barnsley East wrote: "The fact that the Conservative party may have nominally paid to host various people at Chequers cannot be used as a device to block transparency in relation to lobbyists and others gaining access to the Prime Minister and senior Government ministers.

But Mr. Lott has been as prickly about his prerogatives as any other Senate majority leader in many years, frequently using parliamentary devices to block Democrats from offering amendments.

As we drove through the villages and towns of the Shomali Plain, Cowper-Coles's security turned on their jamming devices to block the call signals that might let off roadside bombs.

But in rooms that must be instantly turned into safe quarters, "the sealing can be accomplished using a kit" featuring devices to block any air flow into the room.

One third of the surveyed parents are not familiar enough with digital devices to block promotional content offered on the Internet, or to prevent their children from leaving "active digital traces on the Internet".

Therefore we all must strive to design highly effective maneuvers and/or devices to block cough droplets of all sizes from dispersing into the surrounding environment, enhancing the control of transmission of IRD and optimizing protection of all members of our society.