Sentence examples for has effectively been blocked from inspiring English sources
For now, the bill has effectively been blocked until its proponents reach agreement with the Labor ministers in the governing coalition, who are trying to water it down.
Zynga had effectively been blocked from China because its games are played through Facebook, which is banned in the country.
That may be especially so now that the country's avenues for attaining nuclear weapons — should it ever want them — have effectively been blocked or at least rendered far more difficult.
Four summer campaigns against the Lordship were now officially at an end with James's wishes having effectively been blocked by parliament.
From 2011 up to now, the high needs block has effectively been frozen – and to make things worse, new government rules now limit councils' ability to top up special needs funding from the much bigger budgets intended for mainstream schools as a whole.
Mr. Dodd spoke with barely concealed anger at what he called a "really gratuitous" statement delivered by what he had presumed was a sympathetic administration, which came after the blocking provisions had effectively been killed in Congress.
But the Obama administration has argued that many approved transfers effectively have been blocked by restrictions imposed by Congress.
Soon after the Argentinean Cardinal Mario José Bergoglio was named Pope Francis, he declared he had "unblocked" the canonization process for Romero, effectively admitting that the process had been blocked by the hierarchies of the previous papacies.
Sea routes, often a means of obtaining larger weapons, have been blocked fairly effectively.
This effectively "blocked" the other language altogether, and when they were shown the videos of movement, the bilinguals' descriptions were more action- or goal-focused, depending on which language had been blocked.
