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It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.
We actually saw seals out of our car window, and we pulled over to take a quick picture of them and then blocked them with our giant heads.
But on the front step, a person who was sitting there blocked the rays from hitting the stone.
But you'll see here a blocked page of what happens when you try to reach certain Facebook pages and some other websites that the transitional authorities have determined might incite violence.
So we can actually see in real time that we've just blocked viruses in Sweden and Taiwan and Russia and elsewhere.
When we were starting to think about this, we were blocked by these two things.
So, by questioning this assumption that all the needles have to be parallel, this project also taught me an important lesson: When in doubt, when your path is blocked, pivot.
The teacher can't log into Facebook, because the school has blocked access to Facebook.
And some have politely declined, others have read my message and ignored it, some have blocked me automatically when I sent the invitation and one guy actually agreed to do it and then, five minutes into the call, hung up on me.
The Chinese government blocked every single international Web 2.0 service, and we Chinese copycat every one.
Social media were blocked at the firewall.
We put on creams that blocked the enzyme that made it, we injected things.
So if we inhibit a particular type of neuron, and we find that a behavior is blocked, we can conclude that those neurons are necessary for that behavior.
We blocked them off at night so that they got no ventilation.
And high-frequency sounds will sound more intense to the near ear because they’re blocked from the far ear by your head.
You put on the uniform, and you become invisible until someone is upset with you for whatever reason like you've blocked traffic with your truck, or you're taking a break too close to their home, or you're drinking coffee in their diner, and they will come and scorn you, and tell you that they don't want you anywhere near them.
So we blocked her testosterone with a blocking hormone, but we added estrogen, not at 16, but at 13.
It would be the same thing if I put my thumb up and blocked that spotlight that's getting right in my eye, I can see you in the back row.
Purely for the purposes of illustration, let me suggest four more barriers to add to the four that people said blocked the path to communicative civilization.
So a mouse is escaping a predator, its path is blocked, it'll try to invent a new solution.
Because you see, whenever people do anything, for example if I want to touch this blackboard, my brain first builds up a schema, a prediction of exactly what my muscles will do before I even start moving my hand, and if I get blocked, if my schema doesn't match reality, that causes extra stress called cognitive dissonance.
We can tweet, and oh, lots and lots of people can see our tweets, except when they can't, except when actually Twitter is blocked from their country, or in some way the way we try to express ourselves has put some information about the state of ourselves, the state of the country we live in, which isn't available to anybody else.
And when it is full, it is blocked and it can go to the next.
So could we produce a variant of that protein where the part that interacts with that second bad receptor is shielded, blocked by something like a big umbrella so that the protein only interacts with that first good receptor?
The only difficulty is that the night sky now is blocked by the glare of city lights.
Rifles on their shoulders, they blocked the road.
In areas that are the most compressed, your nerves, arteries and veins can become blocked, which limits nerve signaling, causing the numbness, and reduces blood flow in your limbs, causing them to swell.
Surgeons could learn how to routinely and safely perform C-sections, reopen blocked arteries, replace damaged livers and kidneys, and many other life-saving operations.
But each exit is blocked by an electric barrier with a combination keypad.
If one of the plaques ruptures or cracks, a blood clot will form around it in minutes, and a partially closed artery can become completely blocked.
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