Sentences with phrase «blocking an effort of»

His ex left with their young child and is blocking all efforts of this father to maintain contact with their child.

France and Germany announced last year that they wanted a United Nations ban to block the efforts of some fringe groups to create cloned children.

It also includes heroes, of course — Mrs. Henry, Ruby's first grade teacher; the Foremans and Gabrielles, who endured threats and taunts for keeping their children in school; U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright, who continuously blocked the efforts of the segregationists; and the neighbors who stood guard over the Bridges» house at night.

A plain and simple rule like that will block the efforts of lobbyists, lawyers and contribution - hungry legislators to keep the ultrarich paying rates well below those incurred by people with income just a tiny fraction of ours.

President Trump's American delegation joined with the EU and Australia in blocking an effort of «like - minded» nations led by China and India to impose new obligations before Paris kicks in in 2020.

He fought successfully for development of federally funded domestic and international family planning programs and also helped block the efforts of demographers and politicians who urged coercive methods to halt population growth.

His ex left with their young child and is blocking all efforts of this father to maintain contact with their child.

Not exact matches

Amy Baxter, a physician and CEO of MMJ Labs, maker of the Buzzy pain - blocking device, stopped selling to some wholesalers when they found they were reselling her company's products on Amazon, undercutting her direct retail efforts.

(A new city hall will be located three blocks south, as part of a roughly $ 500 million redevelopment effort that includes a museum dedicated to the history of the Las Vegas Mafia and a proposed arena for a professional basketball team.)

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

Effort was apparent by the number of steals and blocked shots, resulting from the seemingly unrecognized dirty work necessary to catalyze transition opportunities and get easy baskets on the offensive end.

The ongoing effort turned particularly hot this week as Democratic senators moved to block two of his circuit court nominations while two of his other nominees to top courts were grilled during a Capitol Hill hearing.

CNBC's Hampton Pearson reports on the lawsuit filed by the U.S. government in an effort to block AT&T's $ 85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.

Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions.

Even after Mr. Singer's first choice, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, dropped out of the race, Mr. Singer continued to fund efforts to block Mr. Trump from the party's nomination.

The company was paid almost $ 500,000 to interview people overseas to understand the mind - set of Islamist militants as part of an effort to counter their online propaganda and block recruits.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

Investors have been concerned about lingering liabilities from the Option One subprime mortgage business that Block shut down in 2007, as well as regulatory efforts to stop refund anticipation loans (RALs) and the growing trend of taxpayers preparing their returns online.

I have witnessed trades for many stocks where you can clearly see the manipulative efforts of small block sell orders coming through, that appear to be intentionally forcing share price down... Much of this activity runs through the houses of Canada's biggest banks, and it almost always forces the price of stocks down to a point where liquidity and buy orders have completely dried up and there is no more stock floating around in the system to short.

Thousands of Russians are taking a bold stand against the Kremlin's efforts to block the popular encrypted messaging service, which refused to give the state access to users» messages.

Miners that are successful in adding a block to the Blockchain are automatically awarded a fixed number of Bitcoins for their effort.

In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.

This can reduce the feelings of blind frustration and channel some of their blocked concern into socially constructive efforts.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

Despite the euphoric rhetoric of its ambassador's speeches at the UN, the United States has blocked all efforts by uncommitted and socialist nations to bring the problems of organization and policy of communications satellites before that Committee, thus frustrating the Committee and the recommendations of the ITU.16.

If you simply can't communicate on any but a superficial level («Pass the butter,» «Looks like rain») in spite of determined efforts on your own, or if your are unable to achieve the kind of communication which satisfies your needs as a couple, it is essential to seek professional help with your communication blocks.

Amash's over-the-top rhetoric verges on the paranoid, as when he characterized the efforts of the White House and the Director of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, to block his amendment: «The U.S. government has come out in full force against you, the American people.

So far, the United States has lagged far behind several European countries in its refugee aid efforts, largely due to the time - consuming screening procedure to block Islamist militants and criminals from entering the United States under the guise of being legitimate refugees.

As we cheer St Peter's successor on his visit to Britain later this year, we will probably be uncomfortably aware that there will be plenty of efforts to wreck the trip, to make tensions and divisions appear among Christ's flock, to spoil what could be a joyous and uplifting event, and to block any spiritual benefits which might flow.

Quite clearly Murray Goulburn, like the rest of us, reckons a regulator seeing this proposition through its traditional «significant lessening of competition» prism will block this effort.

Over the next couple decades, the market came to reflect the multicultural face of modern Philadelphia, thanks to a concerted effort to seek out and persuade a variety of knowledgeable merchants to open up stores inside — from Amish in Lancaster County to Chinese a couple blocks to the east.

He finished with a brilliant 29 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks, and had one of his typical, terrific defensive efforts.

In a strange rush of blood to the head, Gajic attempts to block or clear a loose ball as it approaches an opposition attacker, but simply lashes an unstoppable effort past his own goalkeeper to score a wonder goal of sorts.

And although the stats show that none of our shots were on target, that includes blocked shots, so Wilshere's goal bound effort that was blocked by Cesc's hand does not count, which seems a bit harsh.

Chances were fairly common for both sides throughout the match, with one of the better chances in the first half falling to the home side, after an effort from Olivier Giroud found it's way to Walcott, who saw his shot blocked by the Doncaster defence.

As it was, the visitors had a free - kick on the edge of the box but Pellegrini's effort was blocked by the wall.

His block on a Callum Wilson effort destined for the back of Chelsea's net was a match - saving intervention against Bournemouth.

But the hosts took the lead in controversial fashion just after the half - hour mark as Kieran Gibbs saw his shot blocked on the line by Andrew Robertson before a Sanchez effort was saved by Eldin Jakupovic and the ball bounced off the hand of the Chilean and in.

Dallas could not take advantage of some wing play by Harold Mosquera, as a sliding effort from Urruti was blocked by Gleeson and follow - up attempts were cleared out by Portland in the 86th minute.

James McArthur saw a 20 - yard drive blocked by Davinson Sanchez, Kane was upended in the area but was already flagged off - side before the last chance of the half just before the break saw former Spur Andros Townsend break away down the right, cut inside Eric Dier and try his luck from 25 yards out, only for his effort to bobble through to Lloris.

Before the opener the closest the sides came to raising the pulse of the fans was when Carrick almost got a touch to a Rooney delivery from a free kick and at the other end, Pugh had an effort blocked by Valencia.

Puncheon had an effort blocked, shot too high with his next attempt but soon found it was third time lucky as he outmuscled Bertrand and scored from the centre of the box.

Kasey Palmer explored some space on the edge of the Palace 18 - yard box, but the Chelsea loanee found his effort blocked by a resilient Timothy Fosu - Mensah.

Chances were scarce within the opening half hour of the tie; Palace winger Andros Townsend's early effort barely threatened to beat Joel Coleman who held on with comfort, before Tom Ince tried a speculative effort at the other end which was courageously blocked by a red and blue shirt on the edge of the area.

His first shot was blocked by Paul Dummett's hands in front of his body, then he rifled an effort into the side - netting and he delayed too long in switching the ball to his right foot after being teed up by Firmino.

In a quiet first 15 minutes, Paulo Machado had the only effort of note but Kyriakos Papadopoulos blocked.

A woeful Bryan Oviedo pass went skywards and landed at the feet of Coutinho, who put Lallana clean through on goal, but Everton goalkeeper Robles did superbly to stand his ground and block the midfielder's effort.

Then Diaby produced a wonderful piece of skill to weave past a marker before having a powerful effort blocked by another defender.

Jesus blazed wide when clean through on 64 minutes, Davies produced a superb sliding block to deny Sterling's effort while Trippier did likewise on 70 minutes, after Lloris had pushed Silva's cross into the path of Sterling, our right - back deflecting his shot wide despite being on the ground.

Christian Atsu's driven effort was blocked by Maya Yoshida, but with Forster already diving to his left, Hayden's first - time shot wrong - footed the goalkeeper and hit the back of the net.