Sentence examples for pledged to block from inspiring English sources

For years, candidates seeking election there have pledged to block any new broad-based taxes.

Incoming Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y). has pledged to block all replacement efforts.

The 14 senators have pledged to block the rule change or to allow filibusters only in "extraordinary circumstances".

Speaking in a beer tent last April, Bavaria's prime minister, Edmund Stoiber, pledged to block the mosque.

He also called for a $2 million pilot program to provide vouchers allowing 200 poor students to seek better schools, and pledged to block tax increases.

A bigger obstacle emerged at Alpbach's mayoral election in 2005: it was won by a candidate who had pledged to block the gondola.

Mr Soini went to the polls pledging to block future bail-outs.

But several antismoking advocates pounced on the bills today, pledging to block any effort to weaken the smoking ban.

The plebiscite faces an uncertain future – the Greens and Nick Xenophon Team are pledging to block it and Labor is highly likely to do the same.

Murasoli Maran, India's trade minister, arrived in Doha on Wednesday pledging to block a new round unless the draft text was rewritten to address what he called the current imbalances in trade.

But here in America's living monument to the glory days of the 1960's, a proposal to close the town's beloved supermarket and replace it with a sprawling, franchise drugstore has graying veterans taking to the streets, pledging to block traffic with human chains and summoning the great proletarian struggles of the past.