Sentence examples for rules to block from inspiring English sources
Before the single market, nation states used to set up spurious safety rules to block imports.
For days, Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky exploited Senate rules to block a one-month extension of unemployment benefits.
Leveson challenged this as he indicated that he wanted to go further and draw up rules to block intrusion when there is no public interest.
Mr. Gramm was a master of procedure as well, using the rules to block initiatives he opposed while spouting Texasisms and driving his legislative foes batty.
rules to block the creation of a panel, at least until the next meeting of the dispute body in early February.
The administration has had difficulties getting confirmation votes for important Justice Department positions, as Republicans have used the Senate rules to block nominees — sometimes to highlight their criticism of administration counterterrorism policies.
Overcoming their minority status, Republicans have increasingly used an antique rule to block nearly all of Mr Obama's agenda.
Mr. Obama had sent one of the nominees — Caitlin J. Halligan, the general counsel of the Manhattan district attorney's office — to the Senate before, but her nomination was returned to the White House late last year after Republicans used the filibuster rule to block an up-or-down vote on her confirmation.
Illustrative Example 4. A network administrator hastily writes a new firewall rule to block suspected malicious network traffic.
And they could use that same rule to block others in committee.
As Amy Miller and Lori Abbot of Public News Service report, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to block revisions to current FCC regulations which would further relax media cross-ownership rules.
