Sentence examples for gathering to block from inspiring English sources

The militia quickly retreated towards Corydon, where a larger body of militia was gathering to block Morgan's advance.

Those protests have generally been peaceful, Ms. Malin said, but Mr. Puckett and Mr. Dugan emerged from such a gathering to block the clinic doors.

Blind since birth, Chen is a lawyer and human rights activist and is serving four years and three months in prison for "damaging public property and gathering people to block traffic" in June 2006.

LOS ANGELES — Conservative groups in California are gathering signatures to try to block an anti-discrimination bill because it includes language that would extend protection to public-school students based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

10 Conservatives Fight Bias Bill Conservative groups in California are gathering signatures to try to block an anti-discrimination bill because it includes language that would extend protection to public-school students based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

For personal data volunteered by users and behavioral data gathered automatically, the consumer groups want laws that would force sites and data collection firms to specify what the data will be used for at the time of collection and provide users an easy mechanism to block data gathering.

The group, seeking to block the gathering of telephone records "metadata," asks how all of the NSA's information gathering meets the standard of being "relevant".

The three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said there was no need to issue an emergency order sought by the White House to block pretrial information gathering, or discovery, in the suit brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative group that has been a persistent opponent of Mr. Clinton.

Protesters also sought to "block the tech commute" by gathering at the train and bus stations where Facebook, Google and Apple employees go to commute.

As anger grew in the community, with groups of people gathering at the attack site and putting up barriers to block traffic, traces of government authority vanished.

The card companies' moves sound a bit like tactics used recently by some big airlines to block outside Web-based sites from gathering frequent-flier information, so travelers can track all their mileage information in one place.