"ground" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But California blocks any new oil development on environmental grounds.
- The project was delayed because of a lawsuit that sought to block it on environmental and other grounds.
- By August 2008 hundreds of sites are temporarily blocked on similar grounds.
- This week, the state, which has the power to block the development on environmental grounds, conditionally approved the plan.
- Last fall the court blocked the deal on antitrust grounds, but has been asked to reconsider.
- But the State Department blocked the move, on the ground of diplomatic immunity.
- They were thwarted by the Republican leadership, which blocked a vote on procedural grounds.
- Congress has been asked to deal with the question of whether coloring films might be blocked on moral or artistic grounds.
- Laurie had established a successful law practice by this time, although his application to take silk in 1962 was blocked on political grounds.
- Forty lawsuits have been filed seeking to block the testing on constitutional grounds.
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