Time Warner also said in a countersuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, that U S West had systematically blocked it from making deals with other telephone or cable companies that might compete for local telephone customers in U S West's 14-state home territory.

He attempted to create a 'soft-loan' fund, which would offer loans at interest rates below market rates to be administered by the United Nations, but was systematically blocked by the United States and the United Kingdom, who wished to retain control of money flowing out of the UN.

However, somebody who is fired for exposing poor working conditions in a particular company, and is subsequently systematically blocked from finding work in that industry, may be considered to have been blacklisted.

In Japan, the Consumers Union of Japan say that truly independent research in these areas is systematically blocked by the GM corporations which own the GM seeds and reference materials.

Those efforts were systematically blocked by some officials in the U.S. State Department.

This is the story of Essiac, Hoxsey, Laetrile, Shark Cartilage, Mistletoe, and Bicarbonate of Soda all put together in a stunning overview that leaves no doubt that inexpensive cures for cancer do exist but are systematically blocked by Big Pharma because they come from nature and cannot be patented.

Those attempts have been systematically blocked by other countries.

As the rapporteur said, back in 1988, I was the rapporteur on the first draft legislation, which was blocked systematically by the United Kingdom with its 'favourable' law, as is still happening today.

Social exclusion refers to processes in which individuals or entire communities of people are systematically blocked from rights, opportunities and resources (e.g. housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation and due process) that are normally available to members of society and which are key to social integration.