Sentence examples for ground blocking from inspiring English sources

The Ivorian was probably Liverpool's best player here, covering ground, blocking runs and shots and continuously communicating with his team-mates up until his substitution on 82 minutes.

Ms. Cunningham took on many duties, including building Mr. Cuomo's political operation on the ground, blocking other candidates from getting on the convention ballot and winning a coveted endorsement from Eliot Spitzer's campaign.

As they pushed to end things, clouds hovered low over the ground, blocking the evening sun and, with England having taken the extra half hour allowed them in the event of a likely finish, causing the umpires to consult their light meters.

Bair stood her ground, blocking Geithner's coddling of his Wall Street clubbies with an intractable no!

But as the warmth stretches into the winter, rainfall begins to freeze in solid, impenetrable sheets on the ground, blocking access to the lichen and moss below, he says.

A program announced by Mr. Zardari two years ago to rein in the madrasas has yet to get off the ground, blocked by bureaucratic inertia and fears of a backlash from powerful conservative religious groups, Pakistani officials say.

During the DVD Stop Snitchin, Stop Lyin The Game watches the video for this song pausing at specific spots in the video which shows a dead man at on the ground blocked off by police tape.

Closer to the ground, block after block of residential development streamed past.

He beats him up, slams him to the ground, blocks his shot.

There were the promised pieces of cable, 4 plastic wire ties, a compass, 4 lag screws, a ground block, 15 feet of ground wire, 25 feet of phone wire, a 6-foot video cable and a dual connector for the phone so that DirecTV could monitor the receiver for billing purposes.

The ground blocks showing the specimens were glued to a microscope slide.