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Discover Ludwig"put a block on" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to mean that something is preventing or stopping an action from taking place. For example, "The government has put a block on further construction in the area."
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I put a block on my phone".
"They want me to put a block on my shoulder and burp it".
Others had put a block on new recruitment altogether, it said.
"My bank always thinks that my card's stolen so they'll put a block on it sometimes," he says.
So we have had to put a block on the number of emails our users can send a day.
A Turkish court put a block on media reports of Turkish citizens kidnapped and held by Isis in Mosul.
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Our designers put a block of clay on every single one of our staff members' desks (there's about 60 of us) and demanded that we go home and take an impression of the inside rim of our toilet bowls.
The sponsors of the conversion of the Riviera to a co-op are planning to put a block of unsold apartments on the market next summer.
The internet search giant had been trying to break into the video market with its own product, and last week Mr Schmidt announced that the company was putting a block on developing new products in order to concentrate on improving its existing ones.
And he accused Labour during its time in power of putting a block on jobcentres sending people to food banks, something the coalition has stopped.
On July 28th, the day before 1070 came into effect, Susan Bolton, a federal judge, responded to a lawsuit brought by the federal Department of Justice by putting a block on the most controversial parts of the law.
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