1.   In the past few weeks the government has once again blocked an attempt to give disabled people legal protection against discrimination.

2.   Already, the government has blocked access to export pipelines for four oil companies that have not paid their taxes.

3.   Another provision allows the U.S. government to block entry into the states of executives and shareholders of the investors in Cuba.

4.   Another California doctor, Donald Abrams, has contended that the federal government blocked his efforts to undertake research on the effect of marijuana.

5.   Another country highlighted in the report is China, whose government blocks various foreign media and human rights Web sites by using domestic software.

6.   At first the negotiations proceeded under a rule of consensus, in which any government could block progress.

7.   Beijing Jeep has found some of the offending factories, but says local governments have blocked attempts to shut them down.

8.   Besides, he said, it would be unfair for the government to block the Raytheon-Hughes deal after approving other big defense mergers.

9.   Both National Power and PowerGen have excess cash after the U.K. government blocked their bids for regional electricity distribution companies earlier this month.

10.   But after the French government blocked that avenue, opting instead to build a single national defense company, British firms may have to do the same.