WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.
The very next day, he alarmed some of the same liberals when his administration overruled the Food and Drug Administration to block over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives to young teenagers.
WASHINGTON — President Obama, who took office pledging to put science ahead of politics, averted a skirmish with conservatives in the nation's culture wars on Thursday by endorsing his health secretary's decision to block over-the-counter sales of an after-sex contraceptive pill to girls under age 17.
So many high-tech high rollers eat here, in fact, that owner Anne Le Ziblatt says she often has to block over-zealous job seekers from crashing the restaurant to drop off their resumes on CEOs' tables.
Panasonic seemed to be just going through the motions at first, and I had decided that a certain covered-up thing thing was just a barrier to block over-eager photographers from spying their new portable Blu-Ray player.
The windows, for example, were painted over to block outside light, but not removed.
As a result, the Lahore High Court ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block access to over 600 Web sites, including Facebook, YouTube and certain pages on Flickr and Wikipedia.
Make sure not to block vents, over a period of time the system will heat up and will need to vent so blocking it could over heat the system and damage it.
Get a linesman to block for you or jump over the scrimmage line.
She made sure transatlantic trade talks started on time despite a half-hearted French attempt to block them over the spying scandal.
