Sentence examples for wrongly blocked from inspiring English sources
The bill was wrongly blocked by a Republican filibuster.The rules should also be changed to ensure that "independent expenditures" are just that.
It was Jack Straw, then foreign secretary and more recently Brown's campaign manager, who wrongly blocked its release under the Freedom of Information Act.
ruling that Washington had wrongly blocked online gambling operators on the island from the American market at the same time it allowed online wagering on horse racing.
"In these cases British Gas Business failed these consumers who were wrongly blocked from switching, many of them small businesses, and denied others the chance to switch to a better deal at the end of their contract.
The government is setting up a scheme to sites alert ISPs when they are wrongly blocked.
A recent study commissioned by the Open Rights Group revealed that many sites - 60 were named in the study - were being wrongly blocked.
The site had just sued Universal Music Group for wrongly blocking Megaupload's recent star-studded YouTube campaign.
The Stroger administration accuses the state of improperly withholding funding, forcing the county to spend millions of local tax dollars, and of wrongly blocking access to a key computer system.
But it really represents an unjustified triumph of a right-wing narrative that wrongly imagines blocking judicial nominees on ideological grounds to have begun with a gang of liberal Democrats — rather than with Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats opposed to the legal revolutions of the 1960s and keen to hand Lyndon Johnson a political defeat.
As Katinka Barysch, of the London-based Centre for European Reform, notes drily, "the Russians have a somewhat different approach to law, so whether you can aim to solve all problems with a legal document is open to doubt".Correction: we wrongly stated that Russia had blocked an oil pipeline to Lithuania's refinery since 1996.
Britain's biggest building society was hit by an IT failure today which meant online customers were blocked from their accounts or were wrongly told they were empty.
