Sentence examples for had begun blocking from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government had begun blocking it.

Maria Mendler, a Citibank spokeswoman, said the company had begun blocking the transactions within the last several weeks.

They were lounging around the edge of an occupied road in the Mong Kok district, which was then a stronghold of the pro-democracy movement that had begun blocking off some of Hong Kong's main arteries in protest.

Censors have begun blocking internet searches for Yecheng and Kashgar.

China's censors have begun blocking more foreign Web sites and, in recent weeks, have sharply stepped up the blocking of virtual private networks, or VPNs.

Now, however, ISPs have begun blocking the IP addresses used by Twitter themselves, according to an analysis carried out by internet monitoring firm Renesys.

HONG KONG — Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions they had recently imposed on the Web sites of other media outlets.

Elderly activists have begun blocking trucks from entering the construction site.Mr Abe's latest budget cut general spending to Okinawa by ¥16 billion, while allocating ¥147 billion to pay for the Futenma relocation and other projects linked to America's army.

Because so many security-conscious students are hiring private drivers to shuttle them around in vans, taxi drivers in Acapulco have begun blocking the roads, she said, and in some cases forcibly removing passengers from the vans and ordering them into taxis.

My friends and I have begun blocking one hour a week for personal finance.

Sky Broadband has begun blocking access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.