Blocked Sentence Examples

A shadow blocked the hot Caribbean sun, and she looked up to see Rhyn in his pterodactyl form circling above them.

Within a couple of hours, clouds blocked the moon, and the snow began again.

He blocked her first punch but not her second.

He pulsed as strongly as the two blocked men with the power he'd absorbed.

The buildings blocked the sun, and the barrage of sensations overwhelmed her.

I didn't realize you were rotating here, or I'd have blocked it.

Talon lashed out at Dusty, and she gasped as he barely blocked in time.

He blocked it and the next two blows and then snatched a fist headed for his face, twisted her arm, and spun her.

She hadn't thought to put her hair up; it blocked the name of her mate on her back.

You blocked her, not Rhyn.

He looked up instinctively, sensing something different about this thunder.  It didn't sound like the rumbling thunder he'd heard in the mortal world.  It sounded like an explosion in the sky.  The jungle canopy blocked his view, so he leapt up to catch the branch of the nearest tree.  He scaled the tree quickly, stopping only when he broke through the layers of leaves.  More tiny explosions came, and he twisted to see what they were.

A slow-moving car on his side of the street blocked him from reading the license number or giving chase.

He started to move past them but Dean blocked the way.

The prisoner tucked her behind him with one hand and met the first attacker's blow, blocked it, and flung him down the hall.

A police guard blocked Dean's door for the first twenty-four hours, precluding visitors.

When she turned away, he blocked the view with his hands and prayed she had done the same to avoid witnessing his savagery.

Connor obeyed, and as Victor made a move toward him, Jackson blocked him, allowing him to scurry to safety.

Elise lowered her laser as Lana blocked her shot and approached the man named Arnie.

Brady slid away until he had a shot not blocked by the brunette.

Thunder cracked overhead, and Toby looked up.  Ully ran into him as the angel stopped, and they both stared at the sky.  He thought he saw something in the sky, but the trees blocked it.

The one that gnawed at him, blocked out but begging consideration, was the possibility that Cynthia Byrne was somehow involved.

Others ahead of him were doing the same as the fog-like cloud blocked out the sun.

Within an hour, they were riding side-by-side down the south bank of the creek, searching for the blocked area.

She slashed and blocked, soon seeing what Sofi meant.

His power swelled, until dark clouds blocked the desert sun.

His necklace bounced against her chest as she struck and blocked with fluid, catlike movements.

He'd blocked the strike that probably would've killed the woman who betrayed him, saving her instead.

Rissa blocked the blow of the second and dropped, rolling as an axe split the ground near her head.

Taran cursed the animal again under his breath and blocked two strikes before they broke free of the footmen.

Taran's large frame blocked her path to the door.

They went to what had been a Nook sales stand in the center of the store and was blocked off for him.

Straightening, he blocked her attempt to flee from the porch and backed her into the corner.

Rarely the nephridium does not communicate with the coelom; in such cases the nephridium ends in a single cell, like the "flame cell" of a Platyhelminth worm, in which there is a lumen blocked at the coelomic end by a tuft of fine cilia projecting into the lumen.

Such injuries are apt to occur in syphilitic endarteritis, or senile arterial decay, whereby an artery may be blocked permanently, as if with an embolus, and the area supplied by it, in so far as it was dependent upon this vessel, deprived of nutrition.

A cement mixer blocked the driveway to her left.

A yellow police tape blocked off the area where Shipton had belayed for his ill-fated drop.

His response was a strike hard enough to jar her to the bone when she blocked it.

Jonny blocked her from going to her cousin.

Instinctively, he blocked another strike of lightening while absorbing a second.

Before she registered lightening coming towards them, he had blocked it.

Red fog blocked her for a second.

The delta arms sometimes remain blocked with ice the whole year round.

In the ordinary working of a hot-water apparatus the expansion pipe already referred to will prevent any overdue pressure occurring in the boiler; should, however, the pipes Safety become blocked in any way while the apparatus is valves.

The first important industry of the state was "rafting" lumber from Vermont through Lake Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers to Quebec. Burlington became a great lumber market for a trade moving in the direction of Boston after the Richelieu river was blocked to navigation and railway transportation began, and in 1882 Burlington was the third lumber centre in the United States.

The second branch proceeds north-westwards towards the West Indies, where it mingles with the waters of the northern equatorial; and the two drifts, blocked by the

Sailing to Chioggia he blocked the channel leading from the lagoon to the sea, and Doria was caught in a trap. Pisani stationed himself outside the Lido, on the open sea, to intercept relief should any appear, and Doria, instead of blockading Venice, was himself blockaded in Chioggia.

The building of Cairo in 969, and, above all, the discovery of the route to the East by the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, nearly ruined its commerce; the canal, which supplied it with Nile water, became blocked; and although it remained a principal Egyptian port, at which most European visitors in the Mameluke and Ottoman periods landed, we hear little of it until about the beginning of the 19th century.

Theory and experiment alike prove that a double line, of which the components are equally strong, is better resolved when, for example, one-sixth of the horizontal aperture is blocked off by a central screen; or the rays quite at the centre may be allowed to pass, while others a little farther removed are blocked off.

The alternate Fresnel's zones are blocked out or otherwise modified; in this way the original compensation is upset and a revival of light occurs in unusual directions.

Thrombosis is an accident of not dissimilar character, whereby a vessel is blocked not by a travelling particle, but by a clotting of the blood in situ, probably on the occasion of some harm to the epithelial lining of the vessel.

At that time, recent from a geological standpoint, the valley to the north, through which now flows the Semliki river, was blocked.

Their mouths are blocked by sand bars, which in the dry season check their flow and produce the lagoons and marshes which characterize the coast.

In some cases, where the barren areas are large, it may be necessary to have two or three years' supply of ore thus blocked out in advance.

On many maps it is marked as the Bahr-el-Arab, a designation also used as an alternative name for the Lol l another tributary of the Ghazal, which eventually unites with the Bahr-el-Homr. The Bahr-el-Homr in its lower reaches was in 1906 completely blocked by sudd, and then brought no water into the Bahr-el-Ghazal.

The river became almost blocked by the accumulation of this obstruction during the rule of the Mandists.

Forty years before his visit a flood is said to have occurred, which passed down the river till it was blocked by sand-drifts at Thuwerat, 50 m.

The Florentines were now allied with Lucca and Genoa, and a few of their vessels succeeded in forcing an entry into the Pisan port, blocked it with sunken boats, and seized its towers.

The Lukuga was reported blocked by a bar about 1897, but a certain amount of water was found flowing down by Mr Moore in 1899; while in 1901 Mr Codrington found the level 4 or 5 feet higher than in moo, the outlet having again silted up. A continued rise was also reported in 1907.

A squadron of trading ships and a few war vessels were blocked in Italian ports till some of them were taken and others forced to flee in March 1653 off Leghorn.

Hudson Bay is blocked by ice for .a great part of the year, and the Gulf of St Lawrence is blocked every winter.

Since the accident at Hartley colliery in 1862, caused by the breaking of the pumping-engine beam, which fell into the shaft and blocked it up, whereby the whole of the men then at work in the mine were starved to death, it has been made compulsory upon mine-owners in the United Kingdom to have two pits for each working, in place of the single one divided by walls or brattices which was formerly thought sufficient.

The Tagus estuary, though partly blocked by a bar of sand, is one of the chief harbours of south-western Europe.

He was the author of the De mensura orbis terrae, finished in 825, which contains the earliest clear notice of a European discovery of and settlement in Iceland and the most definite Western reference to the old freshwater canal between the Nile and the Red Sea, finally blocked up in 767.

The Grand Coulee represents the course of the Columbia river during the glacial period, when its regular channel was blocked with ice.

Its position as a frontier town between the papal states and the kingdom of Naples, just in the territory of the latter - the Via Appia can easily be blocked either N.W.

While these ancient events shaped the topography in a broad way, its final development was comparatively recent, during the glacial period, when the loose materials were scoured from some regions and spread out as boulder clay, or piled up as moraines in others; and the original water-ways were blocked in many places.

In the next century Edam was a great shipbuilding centre, and nearly the whole of Admiral de Ruyter's fleet was built here; but in the same century the harbour began to get blocked up, and the importance and industrial activity of the city slowly waned.

The present course of the Upper Allegheny river is the result of the glacier which blocked the northward drainage of the region through which it flows and turned it southward.

A fine port constructed by Giovanni da Procida in 1260 was destroyed when Naples became the capital of the kingdom, and remained blocked with sand till after the unification of Italy, when it was cleared; but it is now unimportant.

The shallow strait separating it from the mainland is liable to be blocked by sand-banks; a canal was cut through these in the 7th century B.C. by the Corinthians, and was again after a long period of disuse opened up by the Romans.

As Bruges was accessible by canal from Ostend, Ostend was to be blocked at the same time by the old cruisers" Brilliant "and" Sirius."The main obstacle to th3 enterprise lay in the powerful batteries.

When repotting is adopted as a temporary expedient, as in the case of bedding-out plants which it is required to push forward as much as possible, it will suffice if provision is made to prevent the drainage hole from getting blocked, and a rich light compost is provided for the encouragement of the roots.

The gate regulates the speed of the wheel by varying the quantity of water; when fully open it merely forms a continuation of the guide passages, and thus offers no obstruction to the flow of the water, but by giving it a movement through a part of a revolution the passages are partly blocked and the flow of the water is checked.

Covering the higher parts of the south-western Palaeozoic area in most places are rolling hills of boulder clay or stony moraines; while the lower levels are plains gently sloping toward the nearest of the Great Lakes and sheeted with silt deposited in more ancient lakes when the St Lawrence outlet was blocked with ice at the end of the glacial period.

The Czechs blocked business by a pile of " urgency motions " and occasionally indulged in noisy obstruction.

Small military expeditions had constantly to be employed to break up slave-raiding gangs or reduce to order tribes which blocked trade routes or made war on other tribes living peaceably under British protection.

It now appeared that the enemy had dammed the sweet-water canal and blocked the railway at Tell-el-Mahuta, where entrenchments had been thrown up and resistance seemed to be contemplated.

It thus blocked the road from Germany to Italy, while a great wall was built from the town to the river bank.

The trade, blocked at Persian ports and later at all Gulf ports except Muscat, continued to flourish, in spite of a naval blockade of the Makran coast by Great Britain in 1910 - I.

Progress in scientific knowledge was effectively blocked by the friars.

On June 15 the Austrian command issued an army order saying that Monte Lemerle would fall in two days, and that only three mountains blocked the way to Milan.

There seemed good reason to hope that the advance might be blocked in the narrow valleys west of the Isonzo.

Hitherto the way had been blocked by a horde of protonotaries, dataries and other officials - purveyors of indulgences, dispensations and such-like spiritual favours - to whom reform spelt ruin.

The zoological collections of the "Pola" expeditions show that certain well-defined districts are extremely rich in plankton, while others are correspondingly poor; and it appears that the latter occur in districts surrounded by currents of relatively low temperature, while the richer parts are where the movements of water are blocked by irregularities in the coast-line.

Their hiding-place was discovered and its entrance blocked.

It used to be said that, if this narrow passage were blocked up, escape would be impossible; but an intricate web of fissures, called the Corkscrew, has been discovered, by means of which a good climber, ascending only a few hundred feet, lands 1000 yds.

Even in September these passes may be quite blocked and they are not usually open till the middle of June.

The entrances to the inner lagoons of the Limfjord are naturally blocked against the immigration of flatfish by dense growths of sea-grass (Zostera), although the outer lagoons are annually invaded by large numbers of small plaice from the North Sea.

To prevent further attacks from the sea the Mameluke sultan Bibars blocked up the Phatnitic mouth of the Nile (about 1260), razed old Damietta to the ground, and transferred the inhabitants to the site of the modern town.

Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts," kerb and building stones, and monumental 'and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.

Early in the 14th century the inner port was blocked by Giovanni Orsini, prince of Taranto; the town was devastated by pestilence in 1348, and was plundered in 1352 and 1383; but even greater damage was done by the earthquake of 1456.

The Republican members seceded, legislative appropriations were blocked, and Governor Morton was compelled to take the extraconstitutional step of arranging with a New York banking house for the payment of the interest on the state debt, of borrowing money for state expenditure on his own responsibility, and of constituting an unofficial financial bureau, which disbursed money in disregard of the state officers.

The roads, which it was decided to make, were blocked by the laborers employed upon them, and by the stones, which the laborers were supposed to crush for their repair.

At its southern end the Kattegat is blocked by the Danish islands, and it communicates with the Baltic proper by narrow channels called the Sound, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.

Other Greek statesmen, and notably Tricoupis, had worked for a Balkan League but failed, partly, no doubt, owing to adverse circumstances, but partly also because of Greek unpreparedness for war and of the inflexibility of the Greek claims. Venizelos was, it is true, favoured by circumstances - the Balkan races just then had been drawn together in self-defence against the newly fledged tyranny of the Young Turks in Macedonia and Thrace, while the military revolt of 1909 had swept the Greek political stage clear of nearly all the corrupt parties, that hitherto had blocked the wheels of the nation's progress.

Odysseus, having been cast ashore on the coast of Sicily, fell into the hands of Polyphemus, who shut him up with twelve of his companions in his cave, and blocked the entrance with an enormous rock.

The mouth of the river is partly blocked by a sandy bar; only ships of light draught can enter, while those of greater burden are accommodated at the harbour of Leixoes, an artificial basin constructed about 3 m.

These provisions did not remedy the grosser defects, and as proposals for an amendment of the constitution could be submitted to the people only after receiving a majority vote of the lower house, all further attempts at effective reform seemed to be blocked, owing to the unwillingness of the representatives of the smaller townships to surrender their unusual degree of power.

These archways were subsequently blocked, and may have been intended originally as portals to a quadrangle which was never built.

She blocked, her gasp audible as the Original Being's energy flew through her.

Dean waved his arms to stop the car, an unnecessary gesture as his Jeep completely blocked the narrow road.

Maybe Andre could read the thoughts that were blocked to Gabriel.

A small door—possibly leading to a bathroom or closet—was closed and blocked by one of Ully.s science toys the size of a copy machine.

Bodies blocked her descent to the basements where the warriors were, and she struck off down a narrow corridor that dead-ended in another set of stairs leading to a door hanging from one hinge.

You may have seen a ghost and your conscious blocked it out while your subconscious remembered it.

Dean sped downhill, the temperature dropping in the breeze he created as the steep sides of the narrow valley blocked out all the midmorning sun.

Connor obeyed, and as Victor made a move toward him, Jackson blocked him, allowing the human to scurry to safety.

You should've blocked that five times over, he chided.

Darian blocked lightening aimed at the vampire, who disappeared once more into the shadows.

On the second match point against him, the demoralized American fired a long forehand from a fairly innocuous blocked return of service.

Then the tip of the catheter is expanded like a tiny balloon in the blocked or narrowed coronary artery.

The actions were brilliant with the roads being blocked by ' fallen ' trees, burning barricades and samba dancers waving feather dusters.

Indeed, luteolin also efficiently blocked the insulin effect on cholesterol biosynthesis.

My face has open pores, a very oily T-zone, blocked pores, blackheads which are visible, and dull skin.

Then with either a tissue or a blackhead extractor, gently remove any blackhead extractor, gently remove any blackheads or blocked pores.

Abnormal clotting tendencies of the blood and/or blocked blood vessels.

West wall contains the large pointed archway to the tower, not chamfered; now blocked leaving only a small entrance.

The process of adaptation is blocked by negative emotion, so we must become compassionate, and generate unconditional love.

There is no west window, but here is set an amusing corbel carved with a face, high above the blocked west doorway.

At the distal wrist crease it enters the carpal tunnel where it should not be blocked (neuritis may result ).

Proscenium arch survives, with top cresting, blocked by later inserted cinema screen.

About two hours later our path was blocked by a 1 1/2 meter wide deep crevasse.

The owner of the land through which the culvert or water course is running, is responsible for clearing a blocked culvert.

These people end up feeling a great desperation in their quest, either feeling not worthy enough or terminally blocked in some way.

East of the second blocked bay is a slight disconformity in the wall face, perhaps evidence of some rebuilding.

The south transept has a similar blocked door that would have allowed access to the monks ' dormitory.

I imagined they were responding to some report of a blocked drain, by sucking out the underground pipes along the road.

Next a wooden lintel immured in the wall but there is no evidence of a blocked embrasure.

Original pale blue cloth, blocked with figure of Tahitian woman in gilt; publisher's patterned endpapers.

Original pale green cloth, blocked in gilt; decorated endpapers, top edge gilt.

Original gray cloth, blocked with art-nouveau design in green, black and gilt, green flower-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt.

Original green cloth, blocked in black on front board (gilt on spine ), brown endpapers.

Original royal blue cloth, heavily blocked in gilt; yellow endpapers.

Original green cloth; blocked border in black and sprig of leaves in gilt on front board and spine; leaf-patterned endpapers.

A blocked tunnel entrance to the right shows where the railroad track previously connected to Dowlais.

Sour and bitter flavors do not seem to be blocked.

The media in the filter gradually becomes blocked with solids and bacterial floc, eventually forming clumps of bound up media.

All routes out of the chamber are blocked by flowstone.

A blocked flue can lead to carbon monoxide leaking into your home.

However, Rutherford's left footer was blocked by a combination of both players.

Full extension of the joint is blocked by the olecranon of the ulna contacting the olecranon fossa on the back of the humerus.

Reducing the risk to health and safety - no more blocked gangways!

Original cream colored cloth, blocked with figure of girl in gilt; top edge gilt; integral silk bookmark.

We have asked for quotes from local glaziers, now that the local Council has blocked our access to grant aid.

They were built on both sides of the street and made the streets gloomy because they blocked the light.

I have used an ordinary black plastic flower pot, and blocked up the drainage holes using hot-melt glue.

External inspection reveals that the church is suffering from blocked gutters, causing damp above the main entrance.

Soon, heather blocked her way and, pushing through it, she found herself on a high hilltop.

Sir Jeremy has called the war " politically illegitimate " and his book is being blocked.

There are far too many footpaths deliberately blocked with barbed wire or made impassable by water troughs.

Offensive material may get through and some perfectly innocuous sites may be blocked.

Just under eaves, a rectangular slot window with yellow sandstone jambs, now blocked.

Even attempts to simulate user keystrokes that would otherwise lead to firewall shutdown are detected and blocked.

On rear of main range can be seen a large blocked arch with cambered lintel, probably a doorway to the original barn.

Goring reported problems with blocked waste pipes to the Pavilion, which did not have the necessary manhole covers on them.

They are blocked by an injection of local anesthetic between internal and external oblique muscles just medial to the anterior superior iliac spine.

Got my access blocked to a webshite for some reason which really narked me off, chatted loads to a little mate of mine.

His way was blocked by City defenders who stood and watched and DAVE KITSON simply nodded wide of them all into an unguarded net.

Only in this way can the plans of the financial oligarchy be blocked.

Look for signs of discoloring or staining to indicate blocked outfalls or flooded ditches.

This hole is a tight right-to-left dog-leg, with it's barely penetrable entrance largely blocked by three old rectangular oil tanks.

Wing behind left hand bay is built on a granite plinth on which a molded brick band rises over a blocked cellar opening.

A blocked sink is an unhappy sink... You may never need to use a plunger again.

A gentle exfoliating therapy enriched with tropical papain fruit enzymes and flower extracts to purify blocked pores and sweep away dead cells.

Two partly blocked C14 chancel windows remain with carved quatrefoils in blank frieze on jambs and fragments of tracery.

Proliferative retinopathy At this stage, some of the tiny blood vessels in the retina become blocked.

Sneezing, a blocked or runny nose and itchy eyes are common symptoms of hay fever, also called seasonal allergic rhinitis.

When the main road is blocked or has roadworks, the traffic is severely affected.

Then, deep inside the cave, disaster strikes when their route back to the surface is blocked by a rockfall.

However, above each silo in the west wall are blocked apertures that also contain silicates.

People may also have trouble breathing, have a runny nose, and blocked sinuses.

The migrants plowed on but when they got to within three miles of the summit they found their way blocked by five-foot snowdrifts.

The blocked up windows separating the ringing chamber from the church are not soundproof.

Inside, he found that accumulated debris has almost completely blocked the oil strainer, fortunately without the engine having suffered any damage.

He had been using a tractor and slurry vacuum tanker to empty a blocked and overflowing septic tank.

The open ends of the arteries are initially eroded by the invading trophoblastic tissues, and then later become partially blocked by cytotrophoblastic cells.

Four pointed arch windows, ground floor blanks upper with renewed y tracery, partly boarded, with one blocked.

The Hartley Bank Disaster (1862) saw miners trapped underground when their one entrance/exit shaft was blocked.

It can be caused by excess ear wax, blocked eustachian tubes, pressure damage or aging.

It had been blocked up and was well hidden by undergrowth.

At the west end is a blocked doorway, also round-headed with long brick voussoirs; it is approached by a worn sandstone step.

Not far off are mineral springs by the coast (Neptuniae aquae), known to the Romans and still in use - except one containing arsenic which was blocked up both by the ancients and again in 1839 as a precaution.

The Syracusans now blocked the mouth of the Great Harbour, and the Athenian fleet, after a frantic effort to break out and a desperate conflict, was utterly defeated and half destroyed.

But at length they came unexpectedly upon a huge rock that shut off the passage and blocked them from proceeding a single step farther.

Is the way blocked?

Whatever he tried to be, whatever he engaged in, the evil and falsehood of it repulsed him and blocked every path of activity.

A retreating regiment, thronging and hurrying, blocked the street.

The cavalry regiment, as it descended the hill with its singers, surrounded Pierre's carriage and blocked the road.

He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.

And strange to say, the Governor of Moscow, the proud Count Rostopchin, took up a Cossack whip and went to the bridge where he began with shouts to drive on the carts that blocked the way.

Lee Trundle collected Sam Ricketts ' deflected right-wing cross, and although his shot was partially blocked, Connor reacted quickest to slide home.

Although his shot was initially blocked, the ball ricocheted around in the box before Duffy blasted home from six yards.

Original green cloth, decorated with shamrock design, blocked blind on front board, blocked in gilt on spine.

Andy Lewis showed the way after snaffling up a blocked Barton shot from a well worked short corner.

Belfry window blocked off but similar to that on north with sunken spandrel panels, tho more worn.

If not, the nozzle becomes blocked, and the slip can splatter out when extra pressure is applied.

Decongestant sprays Decongestant sprays may be used occasionally to relieve stuffy or blocked noses.

Many Hotpoint washing machines have a filter inside the sump hose which gets blocked.

They blocked 3 gates completely causing tailbacks for hours and massively disturbing the shift change-over.

Four pointed arch windows, ground floor blanks upper with renewed Y tracery, partly boarded, with one blocked.

Damaged or blocked fallopian tubes can, in some cases, be repaired by tubal surgery.

Failure to enter the correct unlatching code may result in your Mobile Phone becoming permanently blocked.

Using a dial-up is limiting because the phone line the modem is connected to is blocked during use, so no incoming or outgoing phones calls can be received or made.

If his rectum becomes blocked it could cause a serious impaction that could become life threatening.

He will check the abdomen for signs that the bladder is full, and he may try to force some urine out to see if the cat's urethra is blocked.

He believed that when the soul's purpose was thwarted or blocked, disease resulted from the negative energies associated with such a block.

Pores can often seem large when they're blocked with oil.

However, realize that if you are using the Internet from work or school, there's probably a good reason (usually related to privacy) the company or school wants certain websites blocked.

While it might be annoying if you desire to check your Facebook page or send an e-mail, there are good reasons you get blocked.

If the site is still blocked after changing the settings, try downloading another web browser like Firefox or Chrome.

Unless you have a dire emergency or need to visit a blocked website, be respectful of the school's or company's property.

Do a final check to make sure no one is being blocked.

Cut your paper to fit the dimensions of each blocked area.

Adhere blocked background paper to the grid.

Although it's easy to create a color blocked layout using supplies you already own, you may want to purchase pre-designed papers to use when you're in a hurry to finish a particular layout.

For example, Kyla's Tone on Tone Color Blocked Papers from Hot Off the Press feature subtle colors and faux textures that suit a variety of scrapbooking styles.

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked, usually by a blood clot formed on the surface of plaques inside the coronary arteries.

Certain roads were blocked off because of an up coming parade.

Looking back, I have mentally blocked out this part of my childhood, because I have no recollection of my mother even being present.

Some of the substances that street heroin may be laced with may not dissolve in the body once injected, and this can lead to the veins, lungs, kidneys or brain becoming blocked.

Gulzar's attempt to restrict Melanie Brown from taking Phoenix on tour was blocked by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider and Brown continues to have sole legal and physical custody of the child.

If you don't choose wisely, you could end up with a cabin that sits atop the engine room or one that has its window blocked by safety equipment.

Make sure the pot's drainage holes aren't blocked.

If the panels are blocked by shrubbery or other landscaping features, the lights will not work properly, and in some cases, not at all.

The basic reason for this is that the Internet is constantly evolving; sites that were blocked previously simply obtain a new domain name and continue doing business.

Coronary artery disease is one form of heart disease and occurs when the arteries supplying blood to the heart are blocked due to a buildup of fatty material or scar tissue.

Access to these areas should never be blocked or full of clutter.

The more tissue located there, the more likely it is for the airway to be completely blocked off from breathing.

Those suffering from sleep apnea are unable to sleep well because there are constantly awoken throughout the night to open this blocked passage.

Sleep apnea patients wake up many times during the night, often without realizing, frequently due to a blocked airway.

This will open up the windpipe to bypass completely the blocked airway.

This condition is often associated with a sunken bridge of the nose that causes the nasal passages to be partly or completely blocked, and with an elongated soft palate.

Dr. Madison is able to customize a dental appliance that will reposition the patient's tongue so that the patient's airway is not blocked while they sleep.

Nasal problems, including allergies, infections, and a deviated nasal septum, can cause blocked airways and make breathing more difficult.

Nasal decongestant sprays can loosen nasal and sinus congestion and relieve blocked airways.

Nasal decongestants are effective at preventing snoring caused by blocked sinuses or allergies.

Peripheral artery disease is a condition in which the arteries in the legs become blocked.

Blocked nasal passages, caused by colds, allergies or nasal polyps or a deviated septum.

The key benefit to using the sound machines was the fact that they blocked out other noises that would otherwise disturb sleep.

The style of the frames allows for a snug, comfortable fit that keeps the sun blocked from more than just the front-they wrap around the contours of your face to block the most sunlight possible.

The sides are taken care of but your peripheral vision isn't blocked, thanks to extra lens material housed in the sides of the frame.

Your game won't be skewed because your goggles blocked your view.

Panoptx is unique because the entire eye is completely enclosed, and UV light is blocked out in all directions.

Eventually, this growth can lead to blocked vision.

All Serengeti lenses feature 100 percent UV protection, with UVA blocked at 98.5 percent, and UVB blocked at 100 percent.

Anyone wearing those polarized lenses will still receive enough light to see clearly, but most of the high-intensity reflected light is blocked.

If you have a Southern California annual passport and are blocked out on a day you want to attend, you can still visit the park and pay a minimum fee, which is roughly half the price of a one-day ticket.

Certain weapon items like crowbars, shovels, fire axes and sledgehammers will also help you access blocked off areas.

If you encounter pathways blocked by spiderwebs, you can burn them with your torch.

Routes are blocked at different sections, but you mostly be racing most of the same track with few changes.

It takes exactly 14 blocked hits for Vega to lose his claw in battle, effectively cutting his attack range in half.

Try to do spells on other Sims when their backs are turned or from other rooms or otherwise blocked off areas on lots.

If you encounter any blocked areas, use the shovel to get through.

The creek is being blocked by some kind of obstacle.

The row that terminates near the bottom is blocked by the other string for at least half of its path, but don't forget that it is there.

At 7000 to 8000 foot elevations, spring does not come until sometime in May, and even then some roads may be blocked by snow.

That's because the TracFone browser may not be robust enough to render the sites or the sites may be blocked.

It was temporarily blocked by the CRTC (Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission) due to international investment restrictions, but this hurdle was overcome and Wind Mobile launched in late 2009 in Calgary and Toronto.

Even if you have your caller ID blocked for all outgoing calls, you can disable this block on a call-to-call basis.

When you do so, the person on the receiving end will see your number as private, unavailable, or blocked.

An ischemic stroke - the most common form of stroke in children under age 15 - is caused by a blocked or narrowed artery.

Intracranial bypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to restore blood flow around a blocked blood vessel in the brain.

This new blood vessel bypasses the blocked vessel and provides an additional blood supply to areas of the brain that were deprived of blood.

Heart attack-Damage that occurs to the heart when one of the coronary arteries becomes narrowed or blocked.

If bile cannot get out because the ducts are absent or blocked, it backs up into the liver (referred to as biliary stasis) and eventually into the rest of the body.

Access to the stove should be blocked if possible.

Persons with this condition sometimes vomit after meals because the blood supply to the intestine is blocked.

Children able to actively cough should be watched to make sure they expel the object on their own and that their airways do not become blocked.

If a breath administered to the victim does not inflate the chest, rescuers should assume that the airway is blocked and take steps to clear the airway.

Heat rash is a mass of tiny pink bumps on the back of the neck and upper back caused by blocked sweat glands.

If the opening does not close on its own, it needs to be repaired to prevent the pulmonary arteries from becoming thickened and blocked due to increased blood flow.

The clot or thrombus may lead to infarction, or death of tissue, due to a blocked blood supply.

A primary care physician may treat a nasal fracture himself, but if there is extensive damage or the air passage is blocked, he will refer the patient to an otolaryngologist or a plastic surgeon for treatment.

Before doing the maneuver, it is important to determine if the airway is completely blocked.

If the airway is not completely blocked, the choking victim should be allowed to try to cough up the foreign object on his or her own.

Meniere's disease is often accompanied by ringing or buzzing in the ear, hearing loss, and a feeling that the ear is blocked.

Specific symptoms depend on the point at which heme biosynthesis is blocked and which precursors accumulate.

Also in rare cases, the salivary glands can become blocked, develop tumors, or swell due to the use of certain drugs, such as iodine.

If the oil gland is blocked and inflammation spreads beyond the eyelid, the condition can interfere with vision.

Bacteria may live on the eyelids or eyelash hair follicles themselves and begin to grow when the oil gland of a hair follicle becomes blocked.

It also opens the blocked oil gland and helps remove pus.

When one or more blood vessels in the kidneys become narrowed (renal artery stenosis) because of debris and plaque build-up, or blocked because of a blood clot (renal vein thrombosis), the kidneys are unable to function properly.

This sound is the result of blood attempting to pass through the blocked vessel.

He or she will also place the stethoscope over the child's abdomen; when renal vein thrombosis is present, the doctor may hear an abnormal "whooshing" as blood tries to flow through the blocked vessel.

If the renal artery is partially or completely blocked, an interventional catheter-based procedure may be performed.

During the catheterization, a long, slender tube called a catheter is inserted into a vein or artery and slowly directed to the blocked blood vessel, using x-ray guidance (angiography).

A specialized balloon tip or other device at the end of the catheter can be used to open the blocked or narrowed vessel.

Bypass surgery reroutes the blood flow around the narrowed or blocked sections of the renal artery.

When blood supply to a tissue or organ is blocked by an embolism, infarction, or death of the tissue the artery feeds, occurs.

Because the epiglottis may swell considerably, there is a danger that the airway will be blocked off by the very structure designed to protect it.

Reduced or blocked blood flow to the heart can cause a heart attack.

If an artery to the brain is blocked, a stroke can result.

It can detect if the heart muscle is enlarged and if there is damage to the heart muscle from blocked arteries.

During a contraction, the flow of oxygen (from the mother) through the placenta (to the baby) is temporarily blocked.

The airway may be blocked, and the child may be wheezing as well as confused and weak.

Strangulated hernia-A hernia that is so tightly incarcerated outside the abdominal wall that the intestine is blocked and the blood supply to that part of the intestine is cut off.

In older babies, if there is a lack of range of motion in one hip or even both hips, it is possible that the movement is blocked because the hip has dislocated and the muscles have contracted in that position.

Angioedema can become life-threatening if the swelling affects the larynx (voice box) and the air passages become blocked.

Other sources include wood-burning stoves, kerosene heaters, improperly ventilated water heaters and gas stoves, and blocked or poorly maintained chimney flues.

As a person breathes CO contaminated air, more and more oxygen transportation sites on the hemoglobin molecules become blocked by CO.

Mechanical obstructions occur because the bowel is physically blocked and its contents cannot pass the point of the obstruction.

Impaction-A condition in which earwax has become tightly packed in the outer ear to the point that the external ear canal is blocked.

With acetylcholine release blocked, nerves are not able to stimulate muscles.

Acupressure applies finger or thumb pressure to specific points located on the energy pathways or "meridians" in order to release blocked energy along these meridians that may be causing physical discomfort.

If hair follicles become blocked by sebum, dead skin cells, and bacteria, acne is the result.

A serious side effect, stroke, can occur if a major blood vessel becomes blocked.

This encourages skin cells to slough off, which helps open blocked pores.

When these tubes are blocked, the middle ear is more likely to fill with fluid, which in turn increases the risk for infection.

The more energy that is returned to the probe, the more blocked the middle ear is.

People with laryngeal diphtheria are kept in a croup tent or high-humidity environment; they may also need throat suctioning or emergency surgery if their airway is blocked.

Most often, the lumen is blocked by fecal material.

However, people who have a cough with wheezing (bronchospasm), indicating that the bronchial airways are narrowed or blocked, may be given a bronchodilator to relax the muscles and increase ventilation.

Communicating hydrocephalus is the most common type and exists when one or more passages connecting the ventricles become blocked.

When one chakra is blocked or slowed, this can make a person feel ill, have a negative attitude, run down, stressed out or just out of "whack" in general.

Once they are in place, the positive chi is not blocked and freely flows within your space giving you an overall feeling of well being and a sense of harmony and balance in life.

Another form of clutter is found whenever natural pathways are blocked either by vegetation, trees or furniture.

Examine each room in your house and ask yourself if the natural pathway from door to door is blocked by any pieces of furniture.

If your pathway is blocked, you can be assured that the natural flow for chi energy is also blocked.

If you decide to buy one with an underwire, remember not to sleep in it and to make sure the wire does not put pressure on the breasts, which can lead to blocked ducts and mastitis.