1.   But Gingrich, with his crude blocking tactics, has forfeited any respect.

2.   He might have stepped up his blocking tactics, whatever the council decided.

3.   The moderate Protestant leader David Trimble overcame the blocking tactics of hard-line Protestant opponents on Tuesday and was re-elected first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

4.   Clarke said the government was provoked into its blocking tactics, announced last week, after successive rebuffs.

5.   Lott said he has no plans to support such blocking tactics this year.

6.   McLaughlin escaped trouble, but gave his competition plenty to think about with his blocking tactics.

7.   Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., expressed frustration at the blocking tactics after he tried to bring the tax measure to the floor Thursday.

8.   The EU and its allies resorted to procedural blocking tactics to try to delay any WTO decision, thus throwing the Geneva body into legal crisis.

9.   U.S. trade ambassador Rita Hayes accused the EU of being behind the blocking tactics.

10.   At the same time, Rifkind ruled out an early end to the blocking tactics, suggesting the stand-off with Brussels will continue.