• More than 80% of the sun will be blocked out during the apex, he said.

    CNN: Upcoming solar eclipse to project 'ring of fire'

  • He wore a noise-cancelling headset, which blocked out nearly everything besides his heartbeat.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden

  • So everyone else gets blocked out and she becomes more and more stressed and less and less able to accept any help.

    NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

  • And there's another indication of the way the economy is shifting as individuals respond to the circumstances of lay-offs and being blocked out of recruitment opportunities.

    BBC: Picking up the slack

  • Many users were blocked out of their games for days.

    FORBES: Dragon Age: Origins Owners Locked Out Due To DRM Failure

  • Boycotted by the EU since July 2010 and blocked out of Swift since March 2012, the two banks had filed suit with the European court to challenge those sanctions.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Ian Roxburgh, professor of astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London, said the transit method still favoured the detection of big planets, because they blocked out more light from the parent star.

    BBC: Telescope sees smallest exoplanet

  • Once you get it, you want to go to the amusement park as much as possible (or as much as you can, depending on how many blocked out dates your annual pass contains).

    FORBES: Extreme Makeover: California Adventure Edition

  • Gayle's team-mates showed their solidarity by not attending a promotional event by sponsor Digicel earlier this week, while they blocked out the company's logo on the left arm of their shirts with tape for the one-day international against England.

    BBC: Strauss bemused by Windies error

  • The public art installation is designed in such a way that not only is the noise of the city miraculously blocked out, but one cannot escape getting slightly sprayed by the inspirational mist enshrining twelve panels of transparent glass behind the waterfall.

    FORBES: How Would Martin Luther King Respond to "The English Riots"?

  • Tony Stewart got into a post-race shoving match with Logano, who aggressively blocked Stewart out of a late restart.

    NPR: Hamlin Has Compression Fracture In Lower Back

  • Her name escapes me at the moment, probably because I blocked it out.

    WSJ: Squash and Schooling

  • "I knew it was possible (to reach the qualification criteria) on the last dive, but I just blocked it out and worried about the dive, " added Calvert.

    BBC: Calvert pips Swain to diving gold

  • Batsman Mark Boucher was apparently under the impression the target was 229, not 230, and blocked what turned out to be the last ball of the rain-hit match.

    BBC: Duckworth hits back at SA

  • Goodwin had a powerful shot blocked and deflected out for a corner, then Duberry handled the ball inside the Saints box from the resulting set-piece to hand Accies a lifeline.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Hamilton 1-2 St Johnstone

  • After 20 minutes the home side produced a fabulous move, John Arne Riise picking out Pennant with a raking 70-yard pass and his cross finding Yossi Benayoun, who saw his first-time shot blocked eight yards out.

    BBC: Liverpool 3-0 Newcastle

  • Twice in the first 20 minutes Messi ran at the Nigeria defence and provided scoring opportunities for Higuain, but the first the Real Madrid striker put past the near post from three yards out and then saw his angled drive from further out blocked by Enyeama.

    BBC: Argentina 1-0 Nigeria

  • Twelve minutes in, Kilmarnocks's Allan Russell had a hooked effort blocked 18-yards out by Scobbie.

    BBC: Falkirk 1-1 Kilmarnock

  • As soon as the whistle was blown though, it was strange how I blocked all of that out and just concentrated on the game.

    BBC: Micah Richards column

  • Starting after Cyprus clinched its original bailout deal in the early hours of March 16, the Central Bank of Cyprus blocked all fund transfers out of the country except those it specifically approved, according to senior euro-zone officials.

    WSJ: Cyprus Braces for Bank Openings

  • Until we reached the road out: totally blocked by a ragged barricade of a dozen huge fallen trees, most of them old pines with their shallow root balls obscenely exposed.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • New technology that would allow more planes to fly but put air-traffic controllers out of work is blocked by unions.

    ECONOMIST: Is more regulatory reform the answer?

  • With the fog descending over Fir Park, Jutkiewicz cleared the air with an early effort from 20 yards out, but Loovens blocked.

    BBC: Georgios Samaras

  • His road out of poverty is blocked.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • Montgomery extended South Africa's lead three minutes later after Martin Corry infringed at a ruck, and Steyn -- at 20 the second-youngest player to feature in a final -- made it 15-6 from 47 meters out after Ben Kay blocked Os du Randt in the 62nd minute.

    CNN: Springboks foil England record bid

  • "All roads into and out of Sofia have been blocked, " the city's police said in a statement.

    BBC: Bulgarian gang boss Evelin Banev's daughter kidnapped

  • Cyprus should have equalised in the 15th minute when Dimitris Christofi blazed over from five yards out after Shay Given had blocked Michael Constantinou's angled shot following a Duff miskick.

    BBC: Republic of Ireland 1-0 Cyprus

  • Noah was blocked by Lopez, the ball bouncing out of bounds, and the game went to a third overtime after the inbounds pass deflected off the Bulls center and hit the rim.

    WSJ: Robinson surge leads Bulls past Nets in triple OT

  • The Cottagers had a level of control over the game and Bobby Zamora set up Dempsey at the far post but his shot was blocked by Ian Ashbee with keeper Duke out of position.

    BBC: Fulham 0-1 Hull

  • But Milica Delevic, director of Serbia's European integration office, points out that, with Serbia blocked by the Mladic affair, it is becoming harder either to motivate officials or to maintain popular enthusiasm for the EU in a country that has been hearing the mantra of Europe ever since the fall of Milosevic in 2000.

    ECONOMIST: America, Europe and the western Balkans

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