Sentence examples for hill prevented from inspiring English sources

The following year, furor on Capitol Hill prevented DP World, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, from buying several major American ports.

But that is becoming harder and harder to sustain when deadlock on Capitol Hill prevents it from acquiring sufficient visas for the knowledge workers it needs that America's universities are not producing enough of.

The political gridlock on the hill has prevented any progress in trade negotiations in recent years.

Although the Falaise Gap had been narrowed to a distance of several hundred yards, a protracted series of fierce assaults and defenses between two battle groups of the Polish 1st Armoured Division and the II SS Panzer Corps on Mont Ormel (Hill 262) prevented the quick closing of the Falaise Gap, allowing thousands of German troops to escape from Normandy.

Carpets were placed on the path leading up to the hill to prevent pilgrims from falling into the mud.

"But if you are 23 years old and have no coronary disease, then running up the hill can prevent you from getting heart disease".

This worst-case scenario is unlikely to unfold, in part because it is plausible enough to have galvanized Capitol Hill to prevent it.

One of them, on the island of Skye, says he now keeps "an almost sacrificial stock of sheep" out on the hill to prevent the sea eagles coming lower down.

The bill, titled the End Bulk Collection Act of 2014 and currently circulating on Capitol Hill, would prevent the government from acquiring "records of any electronic communication without the use of specific identifiers or selection terms," some 10 months after the Guardian first exposed the bulk collection based on leaks by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Among other things, Hill proposed preventing judges from breaking with what he sees as self-evident constitutional values by allowing people to vote them out of office.

On 24 December, police blocked roads leading to India Gate and Raisina Hill to prevent possible mass protests, and closed nine metro stations, affecting thousands of transit patrons.