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In the 1990s they blocked off a road here when pensioners took to the streets. I went out to speak to them and they threw rotten tomatoes at me, there's nothing like that now. – Igor Voinov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm going to vote for the deal because it's what's best for the country, it's not right and it's painful to pay this much to the funds, but the reality is we lost the court case. Meanwhile, the interest we owe on the debt is mounting and we've been blocked by the court from paying the holders of our restructured bonds. – Miguel Pichetto	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As a result of this designation, all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which Santoso has any interest is blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with Santoso. – The State Department	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They said that their families were starving, but what about the families of the people blocked at the border, are not their families starving, too. – Mirolyub Stolarski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This rule should be struck down permanently before coal country is destroyed completely, and American consumers are consigned to higher energy prices, great news for Wyoming American energy. Republicans will do what we can to keep this rule permanently blocked. – House Speaker Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Three years ago, a bipartisan, commonsense bill would have required background checks for virtually everyone who buys a gun, this policy was supported by some 90 percent of the American people. It was supported by a majority of NRA households. But the gun lobby mobilized against it. And the Senate blocked it. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
South Stream was blocked, and now it needs a reasonable argument at least why South Stream is bad and Nord Stream is acceptable. – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The government has just foiled an evil attempt at detribalization. The objective of these individuals, motivated by I don't know what, was to overthrow the democratically elected power, they envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram. – President Mahamadou Issoufou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram. – President Mahamadou Issoufou	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Heavy rains and wind have required the evacuation of residences, and mudslides and high water have severely damaged or blocked major roadways in these areas of the state. – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Heavy rains and wind have required the evacuation of residences and mudslides and high water have severely damaged or blocked major roadways in these areas of the state. – Oregon Governor Kate Brown	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
With the resources this country has, there's no reason for our economy to be stalled or imports to be blocked. – Teresita Ugolini	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The ones that we have on the market now are very, very safe; they are very different from the ones that came out in the ‘80s, [like] the DalkonShield that did have a high risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, one of the main differences was that it had a braded filament--a piece of string that hangs into the vagina-- and bacteria lived in the crevices in the string, which increased the risk of getting pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to scarring and blocked fallopian tubes. This caused a scare and caused companies to pull all IUDs [off the shelves] except for the copper IUD. But today, the string is much smoother so the bacteria can’t cling on as easily. – Lisa Dabney	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We want to make sure every Republican across the country knows that he blocked conservative amendments to the immigration bill. And that in particular my amendment would have provided more scrutiny on people who might be coming here to attack us, so mine was a national security amendment, as well as an immigration amendment, and Marco blocked it. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's getting worse and worse, more and more websites have been blocked. – Li Gang	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's conceivable that the merger is blocked internationally, but if it's not, if it sails through overseas but is blocked here, they'd have to consider calling off this part of the transaction. – Allan Fels	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Turkey's rules of engagement apply to all planes, be they Syrian, Russian or from elsewhere ... Necessary steps would be taken against whoever violates Turkey’s borders, even if it’s a bird, for Russia, which long opposed foreign intervention in Syria and blocked UN Security Council resolutions, to be actively involved in Syria is both a contradiction and a move that has escalated the crisis. – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We saw a lot of instances of police abuse and torture that were happening and a concern for us is that the police were just focusing on ways to nail the two defendants, we believe, from my investigation, that they blocked out so much of other evidence that could have been used ... simply to focus on the two accused. – Andy Hall	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe, from my investigation, that they blocked out so much of other evidence that could have been used ... simply to focus on the two accused. – Andy Hall	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is really important because it guarantees that we can take decisions, that decisions aren't blocked. – Jorge Lomonaco	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The restaurant will be separate. It will be blocked off, guns -- whether you're planning to have a drink afterwards or not -- will not be allowed in the cafe area at all. – Ron Perkinson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The IAAF is blocking it, i think they are stakeholders with WADA and they just blocked the whole thing. – Rolf Ulrich	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Iranians should accept a deal only if our rights and all the red lines are preserved and the Islamic Revolution's ideals, especially the fight against global arrogance, are not put aside and forgotten. All cruel sanctions should be lifted immediately, all blocked revenues should be released and no damage should be done to our Islamic and national pride. – Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is a definite problem with paper supply, our supplier can't provide us with it, as it is stuck in customs. He can't pay the foreign suppliers, as bank transfers are blocked and there's very little cash to continue operations. – Manolis Manolas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

In the 1990s they blocked off a road here when pensioners took to the streets. I went out to speak to them and they threw rotten tomatoes at me, there's nothing like that now.

– Igor Voinov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm going to vote for the deal because it's what's best for the country, it's not right and it's painful to pay this much to the funds, but the reality is we lost the court case. Meanwhile, the interest we owe on the debt is mounting and we've been blocked by the court from paying the holders of our restructured bonds.

– Miguel Pichetto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a result of this designation, all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which Santoso has any interest is blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with Santoso.

– The State Department

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They said that their families were starving, but what about the families of the people blocked at the border, are not their families starving, too.

– Mirolyub Stolarski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This rule should be struck down permanently before coal country is destroyed completely, and American consumers are consigned to higher energy prices, great news for Wyoming American energy. Republicans will do what we can to keep this rule permanently blocked.

– House Speaker Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Three years ago, a bipartisan, commonsense bill would have required background checks for virtually everyone who buys a gun, this policy was supported by some 90 percent of the American people. It was supported by a majority of NRA households. But the gun lobby mobilized against it. And the Senate blocked it.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

South Stream was blocked, and now it needs a reasonable argument at least why South Stream is bad and Nord Stream is acceptable.

– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government has just foiled an evil attempt at detribalization. The objective of these individuals, motivated by I don't know what, was to overthrow the democratically elected power, they envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram.

– President Mahamadou Issoufou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram.

– President Mahamadou Issoufou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Heavy rains and wind have required the evacuation of residences, and mudslides and high water have severely damaged or blocked major roadways in these areas of the state.

– Oregon Gov. Kate Brown

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Heavy rains and wind have required the evacuation of residences and mudslides and high water have severely damaged or blocked major roadways in these areas of the state.

– Oregon Governor Kate Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With the resources this country has, there's no reason for our economy to be stalled or imports to be blocked.

– Teresita Ugolini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ones that we have on the market now are very, very safe; they are very different from the ones that came out in the ‘80s, [like] the DalkonShield that did have a high risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, one of the main differences was that it had a braded filament--a piece of string that hangs into the vagina-- and bacteria lived in the crevices in the string, which increased the risk of getting pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to scarring and blocked fallopian tubes. This caused a scare and caused companies to pull all IUDs [off the shelves] except for the copper IUD. But today, the string is much smoother so the bacteria can’t cling on as easily.

– Lisa Dabney

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We want to make sure every Republican across the country knows that he blocked conservative amendments to the immigration bill. And that in particular my amendment would have provided more scrutiny on people who might be coming here to attack us, so mine was a national security amendment, as well as an immigration amendment, and Marco blocked it.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's getting worse and worse, more and more websites have been blocked.

– Li Gang

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's conceivable that the merger is blocked internationally, but if it's not, if it sails through overseas but is blocked here, they'd have to consider calling off this part of the transaction.

– Allan Fels

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Turkey's rules of engagement apply to all planes, be they Syrian, Russian or from elsewhere ... Necessary steps would be taken against whoever violates Turkey’s borders, even if it’s a bird, for Russia, which long opposed foreign intervention in Syria and blocked UN Security Council resolutions, to be actively involved in Syria is both a contradiction and a move that has escalated the crisis.

– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We saw a lot of instances of police abuse and torture that were happening and a concern for us is that the police were just focusing on ways to nail the two defendants, we believe, from my investigation, that they blocked out so much of other evidence that could have been used ... simply to focus on the two accused.

– Andy Hall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe, from my investigation, that they blocked out so much of other evidence that could have been used ... simply to focus on the two accused.

– Andy Hall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is really important because it guarantees that we can take decisions, that decisions aren't blocked.

– Jorge Lomonaco

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The restaurant will be separate. It will be blocked off, guns -- whether you're planning to have a drink afterwards or not -- will not be allowed in the cafe area at all.

– Ron Perkinson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The IAAF is blocking it, i think they are stakeholders with WADA and they just blocked the whole thing.

– Rolf Ulrich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Iranians should accept a deal only if our rights and all the red lines are preserved and the Islamic Revolution's ideals, especially the fight against global arrogance, are not put aside and forgotten. All cruel sanctions should be lifted immediately, all blocked revenues should be released and no damage should be done to our Islamic and national pride.

– Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a definite problem with paper supply, our supplier can't provide us with it, as it is stuck in customs. He can't pay the foreign suppliers, as bank transfers are blocked and there's very little cash to continue operations.

– Manolis Manolas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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