If he determines that a hospital's request is excessive, the association might then go to court to try to block approval, she said.

The Republicans have blocked approval for the bond offering and this week offered their own plan.

It appeared to be counting on support from the opposition Social Democratic Party, which could block approval.

The appeals court ruling could block final approval of the landmark civil settlement for many months.

Whether those critics have any recourse, either in court or by seeking to block approval, was unclear.

India tried to block approval but was overwhelmingly out-voted, and lost friends in the developing world.

But an armed minority of soldiers and political thugs intimidated enough legislators to block final approval.

Yesterday was the deadline to introduce legislation blocking automatic approval of the transfers.

A two-thirds majority vote against the constitution in any 3 of Iraq's 18 provinces could block final approval.

The panel members also did not seem to raise any serious new issues that would block approval.