Sentence examples for effect block from inspiring English sources

High tariffs on powdered milk (227%) and butter (464%) in effect block out foreign competition.All this may soon change, though.

This would, in effect, block the attempts by the PYD to establish a Kurdish corridor along the Turkish border, which has been Turkey's main intention.

Progressives fought valiantly against these religious tests, and it would be a grave error to promote a new religious test that would in effect block committed Christians from public service.

By opposing a British return to Efta, where decisions are made by consensus, Norway would in effect block the UK's chances of accessing the single market via the EEA, since only EU and Efta members can be part of the EEA.

In the absence of any further private talks in advance of the vote, Labour will lose and will then have to decide whether to co-operate with the parliamentary inquiry or in effect block any inquiry by refusing to sit on the committee.

The debt ceiling, as I wrote in 2011, is unnecessary (since Congress, through the budgetary process, already controls the amount of government spending) and undemocratic (since it allows a motivated minority in one house to, in effect, block spending that Congress has already authorized).

And it is in effect blocked in China.

The commission found that the government had in effect blocked criminal investigations of some sexual predators employed at the schools.

But only when it became known that he was in the air, our American partners, in effect, blocked him from flying further.

The densely packed buildings create what engineers call an "urban canyon effect," blocking or distorting signals from the satellites to the buses.

Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that American negotiators had in effect blocked more radical French ambitions for new tax rules targeted at digital multinationals.