Sentence examples for labour blocks from inspiring English sources

Maternal antibiotic treatment during labour blocks bacterial transmission to the newborn at birth.

In 1969, Labour blocked the immigration of non-British husbands on the grounds that it could threaten the job prospects of indigenous men – a move that was both racist and sexist as it assumed that women did not enter the jobs market.

The House of Lords voted not to spend more time debating Tory MP James Wharton's bill, whose passage through Parliament was delayed by Lib Dem and Labour blocking tactics.

Plaid health spokeswoman Elin Jones said: "It is outrageous that a Labour block vote has shut down the opportunity for the committee to scrutinise this work.

Labour blocked the publication of cabinet discussions about Iraq prior to the 2003 war while the coalition government vetoed the release of the NHS "risk register" earlier this year - a decision which was not upheld by the information tribunal.

At Labour, union block votes decided every policy issue.

Paddy Ashdown told the BBC that he expected Labour to block the plans.

Very senior female politicians, both Conservative and Labour, have blocked any reform to this highly regressive policy.

That's because the Lib Dems will be voting with Labour to block what is essentially backbench Conservative policy.

Last week a move by Labour to block the tax was defeated despite a revolt by 14 coalition backbenchers - nine Tories and five Liberal Democrats.

Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, has dismissed claims that the Conservatives and Labour would block a currency union with an independent Scotland as "posturing".