How To Use Blocking In A Sentence

Now they know a two-pronged approach is needed: blocking the virus and rebuilding the damaged immune system.
This paradox arises either through the blocking of memory, or under oppressive regimes through torture and fear of the consequences of testifying.
We didn't commit to any blocking and did the 13-hour drive to Winnipeg learning the lines.
She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
Everything takes much longer, as too many people are boarding at any one time and blocking the aisles near the prime seats.

By putting up the fence, are you blocking out the view of a wonderful tree in a neighbouring plot, or perhaps a church spire in the distance? Times, Sunday Times
One of the league's best blocking fullbacks and an improving runner, Christian missed the final two games in 1998 and all of the playoffs after tearing the ACL and MCL in the same knee.
Oblivious, the party bosses clung on, negotiating pacts and deals, blocking any new ideas or initiatives.
In his final season, he again graded 93.5 percent for blocking consistency, but without the cast on his hand, he developed into a dominant drive blocker. USATODAY.com
At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it. Experimental Fiction
Others include Vontu and Patron Systems, whose software also detects potentially explosive e-mail and messages and either allows senders to "remediate" them or takes action like blocking messages from being sent. Stop That E-Mail!
North Kent's record in tackling bed-blocking in hospitals is among the best in the country.
With the tinted lenses blocking out the worst of the bright sunlight, her headache receded to its previous dull ache.
Officers smashed down the door of a flat in Westbourne Grove, Southend, at around 2am after blocking the street with patrol cars.
Instead, he gained a little weight to help his blocking and has turned himself into a versatile, valuable player.
He was unable to pierce the field and his method of blocking the ball with soft hands close to the wickets to pinch quick singles just didn't work.
While it's uncertain whether the protest and subsequent meeting will prevent cuts, the way the governor's staff handled the whole affair is instructive: I'm told that technically they could have been arrested for blocking the way.
Reports suggested that on a bridge on this road a logging truck was blocking the traffic completely. Broken Lives
As it approached the crossroad, a truck loaded with sugarcane pulled out, blocking the road.
It should be noted that it was only following the LTTE blocking of water supply to the East at the Mavilaru anicut, that the Government was compelled to undertake military operations against the LTTE in order to protect the civilian population and vital strategic assets including the Trincomalee Port. Asian Tribune
The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle
A small number were waiting on the solid rock-filled reach, the wharfinger's office at its head and a stone warehouse blocking the end, where the _Nautilus_ lay with her high-steeved bowsprit pointing outward. Java Head
Britain is currently leading a group of countries blocking the working time directive's mandatory 48-hour week. Times, Sunday Times
Unfavourable economic conditions were blocking a recovery of the American insurance market.
The swords sang as the soldier and I danced; pirouetting, blocking, lunging, advancing, and retreating.
He found that parasitism of whiteflies by E. formosa was the same under both standard and UV-blocking films.
A waste disposal lorry and a pick-up truck crashed on a narrow bridge, blocking a main road.
Reports suggested that on a bridge on this road a logging truck was blocking the traffic completely. Broken Lives
Aside from all this, a linden tree languishes at the inside corner of the last dogleg, just at the turn of the river, blocking the direct route to the green.
The court upheld an injunction barring protesters from blocking access to the company.
Just beware of blocking off drains. Times, Sunday Times
However, we also recognise that these extra resources will not go far enough to solve the problems and prevent more business failures and bed blocking.
What a lot of them didn't realize is that with green threads, if you call a synchronous networking API, you're blocking all your threads, not just one of them. Planet Python
During a solar eclipse the Moon moves across the Sun, blocking its light and casting a shadow onto the Earth.
It also said that it was blocking old ditches that caused damage to peatland. Times, Sunday Times
The incurable condition is caused by inflammation blocking intestines. The Sun
Carbamazepine has been demonstrated to decrease seizure activity in animals with electrically and chemically induced seizures. 5 It is believed to act by, "reducing polysynaptic responses and blocking the post-tetanic potentiation. Carbamazepine
Nitrates and calcium channel blocking drugs can be tried taken sublingually for episodes of pain or orally and regularly as a prophylactic.
But apparently the festival organizers had anticipated such a reaction, because a burly volunteer was blocking each door.
The westbound train could not leave the station either and get out of our way, as we were blocking the switches he needed to get over to track 1.
Clouds boiled in the sky overhead, blocking out the sun and heralding a storm.
As the cloud is moving off eastwards there are no rain clouds blocking its way so clear weather ensues. The Sun
Buttons on the cane's handle vibrate gently to warn a user to dodge low ceilings and sidestep objects blocking their path.
The band retreated safely, blocking pursuit with rocks and fallen trees.
Ninety solar panels wrap the south side and canopy the bedroom terrace, blocking the sun and generating an energy credit.
In doing so, the rear trailer of the big-rig flipped over, blocking all lanes.
They aim to snarl traffic in the area by blocking the main coastal motorway. Times, Sunday Times
He was especially pleased with some excellent setting and blocking in all three sets.
They played with huge intensity and the quality of their tackling and blocking reflected the increase in work rate.
They literally bulldozed aside the police cars blocking the road.
Look at the blocking club pips, all higher in dummy. Times, Sunday Times
I don't think Reggie had his chinstrap fastened, and as Jackie Slater was blocking him, Reggie's helmet fell down over his face.
The measures against these persons include blocking of funds, financial assets and other types of property, denial of access to financial services, and others.
The wait queue is a list of processes blocking on the semaphore.
As for normal people like myself, I will just have to go to bed now, while trying to recall my blocking in my sleep.
Towards the end of the service, the priest circled the length of the church with his thurible, gently and almost apologetically stepping over the prostrate Muslims blocking his way.
If your front yard slopes downward, it is a good idea to terrace it and/or have a waist-high hedge blocking the initial drop off.
I once had a Chief of Police write the train conductor / engineer a ticket for blocking the main drag in town.
In coordinated attacks, gunmen in armored cars and equipped with grenade launchers fought army troops this week and attempted to trap some of them in two military bases by cutting off access and blocking highways, a new tactic by Mexico's organized criminals. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 2, 2010
He gets into pass-blocking position so quickly that most defenders are unable to beat him with pure speed.
But blocking out all other friendly warmth isn't the way to handle this. The Sun
The night sky was a clouded one, blocking out all light from the moon.
He said the religious site was just one of several obstacles blocking a peace deal.
The pair clashed - Vea blocking an embittered stab with his own weapon and almost dropping to a knee in the thickening mud.
The injunction also prohibits picketers from blocking the scabs' entry to the plant.
Thousands of trees were uprooted, blocking roads and crushing cars. Times, Sunday Times
We who have paid in all our working lives are already getting blamed for bed-blocking. The Sun
Their hands were low, his body blocking them from any curious eyes. THE LAST TEMPTATION
You can try covering floor vents, blocking fire doors open or e-mailing complaints. Times, Sunday Times
Dying in sweltering heat when there aren’t 120 mile an hour winds and flooding outside blocking rescuers is just stupid. Schadenfreude as media bias « BuzzMachine
A transfer programme to end bed-blocking, where appropriate, so that patients who can be cared for in nursing homes are moved from acute beds to rehabilitation beds.
It wants increase in workforce training and recruitment and improved with social care - to ease bed-blocking. The Sun
Many flashes blind us as we pull our picture poses and we walk on into the large gathering blocking the Odeon cinema entrance.
Director James Robinson provides only the most rudimentary blocking, often, as in the muddled party scene, to the detriment of the drama.
A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light.
The problem - known as bed-blocking - happens when support from social care or district nursing is not available in the community for vulnerable patients. BBC News - Home
It does so by blocking the normal presynaptic reuptake, causing an increase in function or activity level of these transmitters.
They work by blocking the pro-inflammatory mediator thromboxane TXA-2 and not by blocking COX-1, which can result in gastric bleeding. Forever Young
In fact, it leads to a fundamental blocking of good analysis, nearly on par with a failure to understand the concept of consensuality. International Marriage Broker Act passes! Plus, Bush admin refuses to release rules to help battered immigrant women.
Strokes occur when blood vessels become clogged, blocking the flow of oxygen to an organ such as the brain.
Research for the Scottish Executive has fingered mean-spirited van drivers as the worst culprits in cutting up cyclists and blocking cycle lanes, with cab drivers not far behind in the pedal-power demonology.
Blocking my path was a young woman in a wheelchair being pushed by her mother.
It is well cemented with early iron oxide, quartz overgrowth and clay cements with some dolomite blocking pore throats.
She wasn't in his way, she wasn't blocking him or stopping him, she was just a little girl that had tried to stand up against the big bad wolf.
Mind out you're blocking the passage.
It's a memory which, although I can no longer remember a single word of the script, or any of the blocking, has stayed crystal clear in my mind ever since.
For a few seconds the squirrel was behind a few pine twigs that were blocking its view towards me.
The delayed Airport flyover work has resulted in blocking of drains, leading to inundation of water, she added.
MEDICAL AMYLUM: (105mg) Medical amylum (starch) promotes satiety and controls the bodys fat intake and blocking the non-fat material converting into fat. Wil's Ebay E-Store
He is excellent with direction and blocking and knows how to treat actors!
Local anesthetics also alter transmission of nociceptive impulses by blocking afferent sensory fibers.
Support the keel with timber blocking to take most of the weight of the hull.
Who seriously thinks blocking advertisements for fizzy drinks or fast food will make a difference? Times, Sunday Times
Blocking the open - sided porch, framed by the enveloping fog, stood a tall grave - faced policeman.
They had no shields, and they didn't have the notion of parrying or blocking with their blades. Asimov's Science Fiction
Labetalol is an adrenergic receptor blocking agent that has both selective alpha1-adrenergic and non-selective beta-adrenergic receptor blocking actions that is used to control blood pressure in severe hypertension. DWS Full News Feed
Hydrate plug forecast software (GGP-NGH 1.0) whose language is Visual Basic has been developed that furnish the foundations for predicting hydrate blocking problems of gas gathering pipelines.
While singing with lovely tone, her ragged entries and distracting blocking added humour but lost novelty quickly.
It now transpires that the police check happened before, not after, the blocking incident. Times, Sunday Times
Prazosin is an alpha-adrenergic blocking medication for lowering high blood pressure that is sometimes used to reduce nightmares in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. Corrections & Amplifications
Concentration is adversely affected by smoking with the gradual blocking up of the arteries and veins with gunge from cigarettes that starve the brain of oxygen.
But after blocking out almost all the clues as to where it's come from they've left in or inserted one clue that is "Flintshire". Archive 2007-03-18
I stumbled backwards a step then readopted my basketball blocking stance.
Months later, after the developers had time to finish the end levels, the blocking encounters were "retuned". Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path.
Channel Tunnel link closed after Eurostar trains break down THE Channel Tunnel link between Britain and mainland Europe, colloquially known as the Chunnel, was suspended today due to three broken-down Eurostar trains blocking both lines. The Australian | News |
A layer of oxygen blocking material is deposited on the layer of metal.
A little bit of starvation can help clear a ward of those bed-blocking dementia cases. Archive 2005-06-26
The drug orlistat (also known as Xenical) and its over-the-counter smaller size (Alli) work by inhibiting the digestion of fat—specifically by blocking the enzyme lipase, which is responsible for breaking down dietary fats to prepare them for bile and absorption. You: On a Diet
Some operators allowed customers to "greylist" stolen phones - blocking the SIM card but not the handset. ANC Daily News Briefing
This project seeks to develop new organic phosphine oxide electron transporting / hole blocking materials in combination with ambipolar phosphine oxide host materials for achieving charge balanced blue phosphorescent OLED system, a necessary component of white OLEDs. U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
If it is facing the wall, the future will also be like be wall blocking general, luck can not be developed. 3: every corner cut seat seat should not be asymmetrical aisle and seat to cut.
A bowler-hatted type of military bearing reacted, blocking their progress and remonstrating with them for their loutish behaviour. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
The FDA warns that concomitant administration of amiodarone or other CYP2C9 inhibitors (eg, fluconazole) with carvedilol may enhance the beta-blocking properties of carvedilol and lead to further slowing of the heart rate or cardiac conduction. TheHeart.org
Your Personal Unblocking Key is an eight-digit number used to unblock your phone if you enter your PIN number incorrectly three times.
Who seriously thinks blocking advertisements for fizzy drinks or fast food will make a difference? Times, Sunday Times
But they slow mental deterioration by blocking the breakdown of the brain chemical acetylcholine.
Adblocking software usually allows users to 'whitelist' sites whose ads are not so intrusive or annoying. Times, Sunday Times
The idea of blocking access where someone is using a lot of bandwidth just doesn't work.
Last autumn the Sunday Herald revealed that the first national census of bed-blocking showed that in some areas 10% of hospital beds were occupied by patients who had nowhere else to go.
It works by blocking the enzyme tyrosinase inside the melanocytes that makes melanin. Simple Skin Beauty
The kitchen island is also a divider, separating the cooking area from the dining space without blocking sight lines.
Two men were blocking her exit.
Can you move? You're blocking my light.
We found that blocking the nerve signals makes the cancer cells more vulnerable. Times, Sunday Times
Three non-glamorous examples are spam catching, obscenity blocking, and terrorist interception.
The lanes around the Daffodil Lion swarmed with police, blocking all routes to the air base which was about two-and-a-half miles away in the next valley.
This thins the blood and can help to prevent the clot that is blocking the coronary artery from spreading.
Cue for groans and muttered oaths from my neighbors, and that was before they'd stepped out on to Madison, where New York's finest were out in force, checking identities and blocking off half the streets of midtown.
He was also one of the first to talk about repression and blocking out of troubled memories.
This and her blocking treat the house-left side of the audience as if they don't exist.
‘Hey, you can't come in here,‘the doorkeeper growled, stepping in front of him and blocking his way.
That contest between the jumpers will now be clean; that is, there will be no blocking or barging.
And Robierto, the burliest orderly on the ward, is in the hallway behind me, blocking my escape. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
Ironically, some of these problems have been caused by the successful policy of reducing bed-blocking in hospitals.
Suppose that, although a vase is directly in front of S, a laser photograph is interposed between it and S, thereby blocking it from S's view.
The obvious result, if this type of suit becomes successful and pesky, is of course for media to start blocking Internet traffic from British URLs. Coyote Blog » 2005 » March
The Dromard No.14 is indeed a fine footballer but caught a real tartar in Knockbeg full-back Paddy Kelly, whose tackling, harrying and blocking continuously frustrated the Longford ace.
A few nondairy foods high in the calcium-blocking substances oxalate and phytate — such as certain nuts and some dark leafy greens, grains, and soy products — are on the low end of the absorption spectrum, which ranges from about 5 percent to 60 percent. Q&A: Calcium from nondairy foods?
The proposals would also involve closing part of Frenches Road and blocking Fairhaven Road's junction with the A23.
All they see is the short-term prospect of their elders blocking promotion and hogging the top jobs. Times, Sunday Times
Caffeine prevents mental and physical fatigue by blocking receptors that notify the brain of low energy levels.
The best solution is not "sanitization" (which people usually perform by blocking or editing out what THEY think are dangerous metacharacters) but proper encapsulation. Medlogs - Recent stories
She, and all of them, are constrained by hopeless blocking and a lighting design so discrete as to be invisible to the naked eye.
Mahan is excellent at getting off the line, pulling and blocking past the line.
You are blocking the name of your first wife!
Parking permits have been introduced for residents of a North Yorkshire town centre after complaints that shoppers were blocking out shop staff and tenants.
But women's and religious groups have long succeeded in blocking a shift, and the bill's sponsor, State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, said she expects this year will be no different.
This paper describes the water blocking mechanism and performance of slotted core fiber ribbon cable.
Three hooded figures stood in front of them blocking the road.
The new jurist, Superior Court Judge Trena Burger-Plavan, issued a ruling blocking the school district from moving ahead.
I saw a man shouting at a driver whose car was blocking the street.
The silence was broken as the warder hung the notices, the crowd rushed forward, blocking the road, halting the traffic, and sweeping the police aside.
However, ships carrying oil are unable to dock in Marseilles because strikers are blocking the port. French Senate Passes Controversial Retirement Bill
This research demonstrates that the reason that blocking the CD47 'don't eat me' signal works to kill cancer is that leukemias, lymphomas and many solid tumors also display a calreticulin Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
This paper presents the problem of multicast address assignment and port blocking, and gives a simple blocking model and its simulation conclusion.
For example, monoglycerides have been used for decades in the baking business because they help retard staling, apparently by complexing with amylose and blocking starch retrogradation. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Williams must add weight and improve his blocking to play every down.
Potential for additive effects resulting in hypotension and / or marked bradycardia with oral Ca++ channel blockers, guanethidine or beta blocking agents, antiarrhythmics, digitalis glycosides or parasympathomimetics. IMT Home
Stop the dribbler by slide stepping in front and blocking forward progress.
Across the cliff top a line of trees stood soldierlike, blocking Nells view of the house at Blackhurst, her mothers house. The Forgotten Garden
These four were just one vote away in Massachusetts v. EPA from blocking judicial review of the legality of EPA's failure to regulate greenhouse gases on the ground that global warming does not cause "particularized" injury. Legal Theory Blog
Botox works by blocking contact between nerve and muscle, weakening involuntary spasms. Times, Sunday Times
He vowed to crack down on councils blocking housebuilding. The Sun
It was the first test in healthy women of newer hormone-blocking pills called aromatase inhibitors, sold as Arimidex, Femara and Aromasin, and in generic form. Breast Cancer Risk May Be Cut With Hormone-Blocker Aromasin In Some Groups
By putting up the fence, are you blocking out the view of a wonderful tree in a neighbouring plot, or perhaps a church spire in the distance? Times, Sunday Times
Strokes occur when blood vessels become clogged, blocking the flow of oxygen to an organ such as the brain.
He let himself be pressed back toward the door, barely blocking one blow after another, until finally the knight's sword nicked him in the side.
The cell samples were treated with FcR-blocking reagent (Miltenyi Biotec) for 10 minutes, stained with the fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies for 30 minutes, and washed three times with PBS/10% FCS. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Most films of the time were still hampered by a sense of theatrical blocking of scenes into linear sequences.
It causes the cell wall to become rigid by blocking free carboxyl groups that interact with bivalent ions like Ca 2 +.
I did manage to do it, with some creative acting from the other members of the cast, some blocking and some clever us of props!
So far, arguments for blocking the merger have centered on the fear of a large chunk of US equity trading falling into foreign hands.
I nearly winced as my fist collided with a heavy hand, blocking it from impacting his face.
The Republicans shrunk the first "stimulus" package and filled it with tax breaks, even as corporate Democrats helped them along, blocking any effort to restructure mortgages in bankruptcies, freeze foreclosures or force banks to lend money. Michael Kieschnick: 10 Steps to Take Now After a Brutal Election
The two teams continued to fight on and both sets of defences dug in deep and contested every ball with stout-hearted blocking, hooking and tackling.
Two cars were involved in the head-on collision near the Cayley Arms pub, blocking the Pickering to Scarborough road.
A further £1.4m of Government funds was also announced yesterday to pay for care beds in the community to ease bed-blocking.
The road is narrow enough without loads of cars blocking it even more and putting us all at risk of accidents.
Imagine if your memory did not undergo transience or blocking.
The other is how to define their offence without blocking the flow of information from companies to investors.
The compact 40mm refractor telescope is been constructed with a special filter called etalon "and the internal blocking filters together removes all the harmful rays of the sun and passes only white light for safe viewing. MyLinkVault Newest Links
They helped me with my blocking, took the time to test me on my lines and, at the end of the evening, helped escort me to bed.
After the raid, in San Juan, mounted riot police stared down about 800 shouting demonstrators blocking the gates to Fort Buchanan, a US Army base.
The running game has been ineffective because of injuries and poor blocking, and the receivers don't have the speed to make the downfield passing game a threat.
The first trolley was still stuck, its owner now flustered, aware that he was blocking everyone else's way.
His crisp white Greek Revival house still stands at a curve in the main road, momentarily blocking the bay view as you drive past.
The SDXC matrix can implement non - blocking cross - connect of any grade STM - 1 input signal.
There was a great crowd of people blocking our way by the church. Broken Lives
When I arrive she is talking about bed-blocking in NHS hospitals. The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving
On life's journey one happens to help a fellow traveler by removing a blocking stone for him. Actually one is paving a way for oneself.
The drain man came this morning as promised, and hoicked out a few drain rods and what is basically a very big plunger - unblocking the drain by might and main. To the Wheatsheaf last night for the Space Heroes gig
It seems the trees in my neighbor's yard stood an excellent chance of blocking the television signal, which needs a southwestern exposure in the Northeast.
To this day the holding company owns a 25.23% blocking minority in Daimler.
Kentucky's lawyer disagreed with Justice Stevens, but Mr. Alper said his research into state laws and regulations governing animal euthanasia revealed that concerns about pain motivated decisions to ban the use of the paralytics, which also are called neuromuscular blocking agents. Veterinary Rules Raise Questions
Perfect blocking turned the stage's perimeters and centers into a spacious feline demimonde through which to enact a spiritual ceremony that felt like a combination of West Side Story, Woodstock, and Stonehenge. James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West
The stimulators work either by blocking sympathetic nerve fiber transmission or by releasing endogenous opioids with stimulation.
The scent of sandalwood pervaded the air, and opposite the door was a carven screen blocking my view of the chamber's stove-bed.
Stay consistent with field goals and don't have any breakdowns in blocking: Yes. Redskins vs. Packers checklist: Defense gets it done
The team's backs and tight ends have problems blocking linebackers.

How To Use Blocking In A Sentence

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