Sentence examples for which blocking from inspiring English sources

The serious criminals are already using encryption and other technical means to hide their activities, which blocking by ISPs will not affect.

In fact, many of the areas where progress is snagged -- welfare, energy, overhaul of the bankruptcy laws -- are instances in which blocking a bad bill is much more useful than doing something just for the sake of looking productive.

Or take the nomination of Judge Barbara Milano Keenan to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: she, too, faced a filibuster, even though she was later confirmed 99 to 0. Part of the problem lies with today's partisan culture, in which blocking the other party takes priority over passing legislation or confirming candidates to key positions.

In this paper, we develop a genetic algorithmic approach to solve large size restricted slowdown flowshop problems of which blocking flowshop problems are a special case.

The Tracker Protection List standard put forward by Microsoft and now a feature of Internet Explorer 9 shows good potential for giving consumers specific control over third party cookies as used by web beacons, but this currently has some weaknesses, especially the ease by which blocking rules can be overridden.

A clue to the mechanism by which blocking the SK conductance facilitates bursting was provided by models [17, 55, 56] that showed that the Ca2+-mediated slow oscillation in membrane potential (SOP) observed when spikes are blocked with TTX is caused by the interplay between the L-type Ca2+ channels and the Ca2+-activated SK K+ channels.

So East led a low spade, which blocked the suit.

"It was his office which blocked any reference to restoring it to previous levels".

They were thwarted by the Republican leadership, which blocked a vote on procedural grounds.

Some doctors prescribe drying medications like oxybutynin and glycopyrrolate, which block a neurotransmitter, acetylcholine.

He wore a noise-cancelling headset, which blocked out nearly everything besides his heartbeat.