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The decision on the bids that have been submitted as part of the tender for the exploration of the onshore blocks is expected in the next coming days. – Energy Minister Panos Skourletis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was not enough suppression, if we can find a drug that blocks any of these proteins, that would be a good contraceptive. – Ilpo Huhtaniemi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If we can find a drug that blocks any of these proteins, that would be a good contraceptive. – Ilpo Huhtaniemi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Self-driving cars may be far in the future, but the building blocks that start with active safety involve a significant amount of content, expect systems involving large numbers of sensors, eventually scaling to 8-10 cameras per car. – Matthew Robison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The government built 19 blocks there and originally they were doing retail, but they had problems, so they came to see me. At that time, I was thinking --' Lan Kwai Fong Chengdu ?' It didn't sound so exciting to me, but I thought I would go and take a look. – Allan Zeman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some companies are on the very preliminary basis looking at the possibility of finding shale gas, we have a few deposits of coal, but it's scattered and not in blocks, so they expect shale gas to be trapped around those areas and so will be looking at that instead of oil. – Viraphonh Viravong	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They're like flexible building blocks and you can pretty much do anything you imagine. You can build hotels, hospitals, anything, because they're modular and can take up 100 megatons of pressure. – Kevin Jaques	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It takes away one of the possible stumbling blocks for Paris. – Frank Melum	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Henry Ford lived just a few blocks from my house here when he created the Model T. – Brian Rudolph	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The surface of Pluto is every bit as complex as that of Mars, the randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum. – Jeff Moore	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Exploration will likely intensify around the Zohr field and in neighbouring Cypriot blocks. – Adam Pollard	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The latest move means that when they are eventually lifted, Swiss companies will be able to act immediately, it puts Swiss companies and companies based here in the starting blocks. – Olivier Jakob	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We decided to lift the hunting ban after receiving numerous complaints from the communities where the hunting blocks are located. – Jean Kapata	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They always have been magnets for crime, we’re going to another house a few blocks away where a young girl was raped just a short time ago. – Tom Dart	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The hardest part for me is the language that I don't speak ... it blocks me a little on certain things, in France, I already have a career and a name that give me access to certain things and here I have to reconstruct all of that. That makes it interesting to work here, to start from zero again. – Omar Sy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are by far the biggest stumbling blocks to trying to understand true sentiment in social media. – Michael Meyers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The president will have to work harder than ever to explain what the deal actually does, how it blocks the nuclear pathways and what happens if Iran cheats. – Dennis Ross	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It hurts ... and sometimes you feel it come up like it blocks the airway. – Marleen Maxwell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We were wrong when we changed the oil law from a concession model to a production sharing regime, the requirement that Petrobras (hold 30 percent of all subsalt blocks) will be corrected. As for the change in the (overall) oil regime, I don't know. – Eduardo Cunha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is not anticipated that these remaining issues will be stumbling blocks for a U.S.-Japan agreement, we are confident we will be able to resolve them in time for concluding TPP negotiations overall. – The Japanese official	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We recommend you buy a sunscreen lotion labeled ‘broad spectrum protection’ -- which helps to protect against both types of UV rays -- with an SPF of 30 or higher that is also water resistant, sPF 30 blocks 97 percent of the UVB radiation. But, you need to reapply it every two hours, using about a shot glass full of lotion over your exposed skin, for the best results. – Roopal Kundu	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The deadline for the handover of the applications for the sea blocks, due to the consolidation of the seismic data, will be postponed for another deadline. – Energy Minister Damian Gjiknuri	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
[Little Miracles] told us they had hit some road blocks. When I asked further questions they wouldn't give any straight answers. – Emily Knudsen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The concern is there may be road blocks to this event. – Colin Gillis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The decision on the bids that have been submitted as part of the tender for the exploration of the onshore blocks is expected in the next coming days.

– Energy Minister Panos Skourletis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was not enough suppression, if we can find a drug that blocks any of these proteins, that would be a good contraceptive.

– Ilpo Huhtaniemi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we can find a drug that blocks any of these proteins, that would be a good contraceptive.

– Ilpo Huhtaniemi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Self-driving cars may be far in the future, but the building blocks that start with active safety involve a significant amount of content, expect systems involving large numbers of sensors, eventually scaling to 8-10 cameras per car.

– Matthew Robison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government built 19 blocks there and originally they were doing retail, but they had problems, so they came to see me. At that time, I was thinking --' Lan Kwai Fong Chengdu ?' It didn't sound so exciting to me, but I thought I would go and take a look.

– Allan Zeman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Some companies are on the very preliminary basis looking at the possibility of finding shale gas, we have a few deposits of coal, but it's scattered and not in blocks, so they expect shale gas to be trapped around those areas and so will be looking at that instead of oil.

– Viraphonh Viravong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They're like flexible building blocks and you can pretty much do anything you imagine. You can build hotels, hospitals, anything, because they're modular and can take up 100 megatons of pressure.

– Kevin Jaques

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It takes away one of the possible stumbling blocks for Paris.

– Frank Melum

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Henry Ford lived just a few blocks from my house here when he created the Model T.

– Brian Rudolph

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The surface of Pluto is every bit as complex as that of Mars, the randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.

– Jeff Moore

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Exploration will likely intensify around the Zohr field and in neighbouring Cypriot blocks.

– Adam Pollard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The latest move means that when they are eventually lifted, Swiss companies will be able to act immediately, it puts Swiss companies and companies based here in the starting blocks.

– Olivier Jakob

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We decided to lift the hunting ban after receiving numerous complaints from the communities where the hunting blocks are located.

– Jean Kapata

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They always have been magnets for crime, we’re going to another house a few blocks away where a young girl was raped just a short time ago.

– Tom Dart

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The hardest part for me is the language that I don't speak ... it blocks me a little on certain things, in France, I already have a career and a name that give me access to certain things and here I have to reconstruct all of that. That makes it interesting to work here, to start from zero again.

– Omar Sy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are by far the biggest stumbling blocks to trying to understand true sentiment in social media.

– Michael Meyers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The president will have to work harder than ever to explain what the deal actually does, how it blocks the nuclear pathways and what happens if Iran cheats.

– Dennis Ross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It hurts ... and sometimes you feel it come up like it blocks the airway.

– Marleen Maxwell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We were wrong when we changed the oil law from a concession model to a production sharing regime, the requirement that Petrobras (hold 30 percent of all subsalt blocks) will be corrected. As for the change in the (overall) oil regime, I don't know.

– Eduardo Cunha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is not anticipated that these remaining issues will be stumbling blocks for a U.S.-Japan agreement, we are confident we will be able to resolve them in time for concluding TPP negotiations overall.

– The Japanese official

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We recommend you buy a sunscreen lotion labeled ‘broad spectrum protection’ -- which helps to protect against both types of UV rays -- with an SPF of 30 or higher that is also water resistant, sPF 30 blocks 97 percent of the UVB radiation. But, you need to reapply it every two hours, using about a shot glass full of lotion over your exposed skin, for the best results.

– Roopal Kundu

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The deadline for the handover of the applications for the sea blocks, due to the consolidation of the seismic data, will be postponed for another deadline.

– Energy Minister Damian Gjiknuri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

[Little Miracles] told us they had hit some road blocks. When I asked further questions they wouldn't give any straight answers.

– Emily Knudsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The concern is there may be road blocks to this event.

– Colin Gillis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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