The committee also attempted to simplify the blocking-below-the-waist rule, which was found to be unevenly enforced and difficult to teach to officials, Calhoun said.
Feeling you have to stay to avoid your party losing a by-election is understandable, up to a point, but bed-blocking forever wastes space and short-changes democracy.
Thus the whole package of beliefs, expectations, likes and dislikes that you hold inside are creating change -- or blocking it -- at the level of brain circuitry.
In late 2007, for instance, word got out that Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) was blocking or delaying peer-to-peer traffic to cut its costs.
With the wealth of user-generated content on video streaming apps like YouTube and Vimeo, Samsung Smart TVs also offer De-Blocking and De-Mosquito picture filters that significantly improve the viewing experience for low resolution video.
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The Orange, unbeaten at the time and ranked No. 1, were missing shot-blocking, 7-foot center Fab Melo in that game because of an academic issue, and on Monday night senior James Southerland, the team's most consistent outside threat and third-leading scorer, missed his sixth straight game because of an eligibility matter related to academics.
Eli Lilly ( LLY - news - people ) also have amyloid-blocking programs.
Lacking so far is direct scientific proof that wearing ultraviolet-blocking contact lenses will prevent long-term eye issues.
In 1998 Kandel's team injected aging mice with a failed antidepressant called Rolipram, which prevents the breakdown of cyclic-AMP by blocking an enzyme called phosphodiesterase-4.
In late 2007, for instance, word got out that Comcast was blocking or delaying peer-to-peer traffic to cut its costs.
Vioxx is more selective, and Arcoxia is the most selective of all, blocking out Cox-2 while not affecting Cox-1.
The US - which has been widely accused of blocking tactics - also said it supported the EU concept of a "roadmap", but gave few extra details.
In that one short paragraph is powerful evidence that the merger the U.S. government is blocking would be pro-competitive and pro-consumer.
In 2003 British researchers tested Amgen's interleukin-blocking rheumatoid arthritis drug, Kineret, in two Muckle-Wells patients who had not been helped by other drugs.
Parents shouldn't be obliged to act as the sole filters for the torrent of material, as they are today, blocking channels and password-protecting against the ever-shifting programming.
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Ichiro brought up one of the catching position's most notorious jobs as reason why his 5-foot-11, 170-pound body wouldn't be suitable: blocking the plate from a charging runner.
The quakes set off landslides, which -- along with heavy rains -- were blocking roads and hampering rescue efforts, Pandey said.
He has been conducting a long-standing campaign against the Catholic Church to stop it from blocking family-planning legislation in the Philippine Congress.
Several leukotriene-blocking drugs, including Singulair from Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and Accolate from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), are currently on the market for asthma.
Assuming the House SOPA definitions are fine-tuned to better target only the worst rogue websites and not ensnare innocent players, and assuming the amended SOPA bill avoids unintended technical, cyber-security or privacy problems from actual site-blocking or filtering, most of the rhetoric comparing SOPA and net neutrality is bogus.
There are 25 of them--enough to mount a congressional filibuster blocking any measures that inordinately hurt coal-burning utilities.
It has already licensed a leukotriene-blocking drug from the German pharmaceuticals firm Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) and is working with renowned Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Eric Topol to bring the drug into clinical trials for heart disease (see " New Drugs To Watch").
Gloucestershire's two main hospitals are failing to meet their own targets over so-called bed-blocking, a report has found.
Meanwhile, numerous other broader-acting leukotriene-blocking drugs sit on laboratory shelves at other firms, abandoned because the asthma market seemed too crowded.
To Friedersdorf's credit, he responded to our somewhat harsh criticism not by blocking us on Twitter--in fact, he still follows us--but by writing another blog post.
Wyeth, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, created a myostatin-blocking drug and put it into clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle-wasting disease that kills hundreds of men each year before they reach their mid-thirties.
About two-thirds of tumors have estrogen receptors that make them vulnerable to hormone-blocking medications.
Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed - which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse - to block Newzbin 2.
The three-cone drill is used to measure short-area quickness, which is a key attribute in Houston's zone-blocking offense.
Both Steve Nissen and Allen Taylor say little is known about the long-term effects of its flushing-blocker, which works by blocking a cell receptor called prostaglandin D2.
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