However, concerns have been raised that blocking off alleys does not cut crime, just displaces it.
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Sadik-Khan counters that she works with the city's 59 community boards and runs extensive analyses of traffic patterns before blocking off streets.
But the police - in full riot gear - do not agree and are ringing the metal barriers that are blocking off the park.
On Oct. 4, ProDESC issued a press release on their website stating that protesters were blocking off the La Platosa mine for a second time in two weeks.
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Across the garden from the house is a small building, a casino, on a man-made knoll, which gives the illusion of a hilly topography while blocking sunlight glaring off the water beyond.
How can Republicans on the Hill say, "We're better off just blocking anything from happening"?
The same Web screen we called up to set up the router also allows access to a series of administrative options that, among other things, includes turning Wireless access on and off, blocking certain URLs, keeping logs of network activity and creating e-mail alerts that let you know when Junior is trying to do something he shouldn't.
Shortly afterwards a trailer which was blocking the road was driven off.
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Are we better off slowing down our organizations and blocking collaboration altogether (thereby forcing users to go around the system), or accepting that mistakes will sometimes happen but having the awareness and ability to immediately respond?
And so in some parts, yes, there's sort of off-and-on implementation then blocking progress.
"I'm certainly not going to ask him to take anything off his shot because they're blocking, " Bruins coach Claude Julien said.
The 78 floodgates installed in the lagoon will eventually close off the three inlets during high tides, blocking them from swamping the city.
In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.
Ledley drove into the Germany box and Tasci slipped as he backed off, the Stuttgart defender's sprawling hand blocking the ball as he fell.
You can move them around if they're blocking something, but you can only get rid of them by dragging them off the screen to the bottom.
The quakes set off landslides, which -- along with heavy rains -- were blocking roads and hampering rescue efforts, Pandey said.
Blocking the way up the stairs was a massive yellow iron metal door that sealed off access to the upper two floors of the house.
Striker Kenwyne Jones was forced off at half-time for Sunderland after injuring his wrist when painfully blocking a Gilberto shot and his replacement O'Donovan almost put his side level when play resumed.
Although Democrats have dominated in state elections for some time, and it is only a Republican remnant that has been blocking tax increases, California voters at an earlier stage empowered this minority to hold off levy hikes when they approved Proposition 13, a constitutional amendment.
So far, the GOP leadership has been successful at blocking anti-war legislation because Democrats don't have the 60 votes to cut off what would become an endless debate on the war.
The video which played off the handset's MicroSD card ran smooth, though was definitely suffering from blocking -- not so much the result of UMB as the compression used to store the video.
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Cammy Bell made good blocking saves to thwart Jamie Murphy and Steve Jennings, while Stevie Hammell's dipping free-kick cannoned off the crossbar.
The midfielder was sent off by referee Willie Collum on 49 minutes after catching David Buchanan with a late attempt at a blocking tackle.
On Sunday, mission specialists Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to contend with a handrail blocking their access to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), resorting in the end to tearing it off with brute force.
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