A mob blocked the rail line and threw stones at the train.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

They had blocked the Tennessee River above and below the city.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Confederate boats blocked the entrance to the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But always,the Union army blocked the way.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Another problem is that neighboring Greece refuses to recognize the name Macedonia and has therefore blocked the country's attempt to join NATO.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

It also blocked the use of the funds to transfer detainees held at the center to U.S.soil.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Recently,Internet giant Google had to remove its search engine from China, and Pakistan blocked the Internet social networking company Facebook over what authorities called blasphemy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Seiko of Japan was shocked by the blocked doors, and lack of fire safety equipment in the Triangle Factory.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

There are two kinds of strokes. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

If the airway is still blocked, the Red Cross suggests pushing hard five times along the victim's abdomen.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

Doctors can also use catheters to open blocked arteries that supply blood to the heart.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission did not say what services would be blocked.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

In people with MS, when nerve signals reach a damaged area, some of the signals are blocked or delayed from traveling to or from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

A Union force at Appomattox Station blocked any further movement to the west.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The United States navy had blocked southern exports of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

In Parkinson's patients,these areas of the brain can become blocked.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

On Saturday, the government's information minister,Sherry Rehman, resigned after a private television network complained the government blocked its broadcast.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

They say the roads to Sa'ada governorate are blocked and there is no access to the conflict zone by air.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Meanwhile,the Pakistani army has blocked all entry and exit routes out of South Waziristan, where officials believe Mehsud's fighters are based.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Reports by citizen journalists gained international attention after the Iranian government blocked foreign reporters from covering anti-government rallies.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

The agreement means Madagascar's cash-poor government will receive or 930 million dollars in aid that had been blocked after the March coup.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The one item that comes to my mind right now is electrodes for electrocardiograms, which have been blocked.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Iranian authorities pulled the plug on a popular Iran-based website for Moussavi supporters and blocked text messages.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

Polanco and other civil rights advocates say that for years the judicial and political systems in Guatemala blocked attempts to reconstruct the country's troubled past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18