Dorsey became only the third player in Bengals' history to single-handedly block a punt and recover it for a touchdown.

The Governor said Mr. Bush was "single-handedly blocking" global efforts to address environmental concerns by hesitating over whether to attend the international conference on the environment, to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June.

As a freshman legislator in 1971, he single-handedly blocked a bill to impose a one-year residency requirement for welfare recipients.

But then Mr. Schley, who has been credited with single-handedly blocking a Federal plan to turn West Virginia streams into a commercial fishing zone, took a proprietary interest in the Potomac.

Late last year, for instance, Senator Gramm almost single-handedly blocked a Senate vote on a carefully arranged compromise bill that would have lifted some of the barriers separating commercial banks, investment banks and insurance companies.

Mr. Lundkvist is also credited with single-handedly blocking a Nobel for Graham Greene, the British novelist.

The organization was on the verge of approving a new agreement once before, in December, but the United States single-handedly blocked the deal then, citing concerns from the American pharmaceutical industry.

The sensitive and self-conscious population was disappointed when a neighbouring, friendly country single-handedly blocked the continuation of the accession negotiations.

A curious situation arose, in which the C.I.C. single-handedly blocked Barbie's extradition by professing not to know where he was.

Senator Gramm, for reasons unrelated to Enron, was single-handedly blocking a futures trading bill the company had dearly prized.