Sentence examples for members blocking from inspiring English sources

The Federal Election Commission is an embarrassment, with Republican members blocking enforcement recommendations from the commission's own investigators.

An army spokesman, Col Sani Usman, said there had been "loss of lives as a result of the Shia group members blocking roads and not allowing other passersby to go about their lawful businesses and activities".

That was when local Democratic ward members blocked his bid for the party's endorsement in a March primary.

In 1997, after Mr. Pataki last tried to collect taxes on a Seneca reservation, about 1,000 tribal members blocked traffic on the New York State Thruway.

Reacting to those incidents and others, fellow actors and crew members blocked a plan by Warner Brothers to have him appear briefly in "The Hangover Part II".

Its members block music classes, ban Western soft drinks and beat male students for sitting near girls on the university lawn.

For years its members blocked a proposal to create a pan-European "passenger name record" (PNR) data-sharing scheme for airline passengers.

In Ward's telling, Gregory culled able staff members, blocked successors to Fuld and promoted his own favorites as he beat the drum for greater risk-taking.

Some of its members blocked the door to the chamber, but enough members of the ruling coalition managed to get in to form a quorum, some by sneaking along another passageway into the building.

Three Belgian truckers' unions, whose members blocked motorways, ports, frontiers and oil depots, accepted measures proposed by the government to help offset recent fuel price rises and said they would end their blockades at midnight.

Democrats could point to all the bills passed by the Senate that specific House members blocked.