The measures include freezing the American assets of suspected drug smugglers and blocking their access to American banks.

"Many people want measures to block this radical leftism, and in that sense, I am in full agreement with him."

The measure made it a Federal crime to attack or block an abortion clinic.

Currently many providers such as Verizon and AT&T use technological measures to block external applications.

Then the content is still there and visible by default but users can take measures to block them semantically (properly).

But the maneuvers by Mr. Gingrich and his obstructionist crew showed that only undemocratic measures can now block sound legislation.

The bill's sponsors have argued that the measure would not necessarily block the department's proposal.

In reality, the only measure that was taken was blocking the website's IP address.

It is another question whether such measures could block a determined suicide bomber.

The measure approved in the House on Thursday would retain the new protection for workers earning under $23,660 but would block other provisions.