Sentence examples for tactics to block from inspiring English sources

Republicans used delay tactics to block a vote.

"The coach will probably set up specific tactics to block the best team in the world".

"What's made me really upset is the way Republicans have used scare tactics to block everything.

The government must act more vigorously, and more quickly, when Wal-Mart uses illegal tactics to block union organizing.

The opposition can use procedural tactics to block a vote, saving senators from going on the record on controversial measures.

Although she was allowed to stand for parliament in 2012, Myanmar's military rulers are using constitutional tactics to block her bid to become president.

Her filibuster on the legislation restricting abortion rights was not the first time she used that tactic to block a bill.

Mr. Gephardt and other Democrats had seized on a threat by Republican Bill Thomas, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, to use a parliamentary tactic to block the Senate bill.

After using an obscure legislative tactic to block four nominations to the state Highlands Commission, State Senator Anthony R. Bucco declared a symbolic victory last week and then released his stranglehold.

Directors say the policy change was a defensive tactic to block attempts to patent the center's discoveries and thus keep small farmers from using them.

Just as with legislation to extend unemployment compensation and to provide tax credits and lending assistance for small businesses, "the Republican leadership in the Senate is once again using every tactic and every maneuver" to block a vote, Mr. Obama added.