Sentence examples for to block a proposal from inspiring English sources

Invesco almost certainly had enough sympathisers to block a proposal that could have required 75% approval by BAE shareholders.

Last month, the union filed for an injunction, seeking to block a proposal that included pay incentives for experienced principals to move to low-performing schools.

Many singled out his promise to block a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump northwest of Las Vegas as an important issue.

The directive could be challenged by the "yellow card" system in the Lisbon treaty, which allows a majority of member states to block a proposal.

But nothing else matched the point on Saturday, in the final tumultuous plenary, when the American team was booed for trying to block a proposal by India.

Congressmen Anthony D. Weiner and Jerrold Nadler announced yesterday that they would introduce legislation to block a proposal to sell advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia.

Argentina's biggest creditor group threatened to block a government proposal to restructure about $100 billion of defaulted debt, saying a rebounding economy is giving the government enough revenue to improve its offer.

Though he had helped to block a recent proposal for immigration reform in the House, he had once talked of a limited amnesty for some migrants who arrived as children.

A senior British minister has called on the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to block a draft proposal to put stoning on to the country's penal code as punishment for adultery.

Some antitax groups and Republicans had criticized Mr. Davis, a Democrat, as relying too heavily on borrowing to close budget gaps, at one point even suing the Davis administration to block a bond proposal.

As part of one of the individual spending measures, the Senate last year voted to block a Labor Department proposal that unions had said would restrict the ability of thousands of workers to qualify for overtime pay.