"block" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It has blocked only seven corporate ventures since 1990, however, preferring instead to request changes and then give the green light.
- Shuttered installations mean lost jobs among voters, and Congress has blocked any base closings since 1977.
- The University's plans for airport closure have been blocked in the state legislature on at least three occasions since the 2000 announcement.
- Congressional Republicans have blocked any change in the standards since 1995.
- The land route to the west was blocked since early March.
- A ballot initiative to do that, Proposition 187, has been blocked by legal challenges since its approval in 1994.
- But responding to protests from California, Congress has blocked all leasing efforts there since 1982.
- It was this decision that broke the principal barrier that had blocked final passage of the bill since last year.
- This proposal for a directive has been blocked in the Council since November 2007.
- Roughly $68 million in financial assets of terrorists has been blocked worldwide since the attacks.
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