Sentence examples for Traffic blockade from inspiring English sources

Most notable was its 1964 World's Fair stall-in traffic blockade.

The deadly car bomb exploded late on Saturday, when a military police vehicle carrying several officers was travelling to intervene in a traffic blockade close to the predominantly Kurdish town of Lice, according to a statement by the Diyarbakır governorate.

But once the traffic blockade is negotiated, and the road begins to widen out a mile further north, it's actually quite a fast route, if you wriggle round the manhole covers.

Police operations to evict unlicensed merchants have provoked violent clashes and traffic blockades.

Law enforcement have also set up strictly enforced traffic blockades protecting the pipeline site from protesters and the general public.

They also organized marches, building occupations and traffic blockades to keep their cause in the public eye.

Surrounding residents fear that unruly basketball fans will stagger drunkenly onto their sidewalks, that Armageddon-like traffic will blockade their streets, that already-squeezed parking spaces will be swallowed, that crime and rodents will run rampant and that housing and jobs will never come about.

The protesters, acquitted on Monday, were among 43 people charged with causing a traffic-snarling blockade on Aug. 1.

Throughout the French Revolutionary Wars, British warships patrolled the French coast, intercepting and destroying French maritime traffic and blockading French ports.

A proposed law would make it "an offence to breach authority using mass active or passive resistance against security forces and to include as a crime of assault any threatening or intimidating behaviour", and simply blockading traffic or using social media to organise protest could land you in jail for two years.

During the days, activists blockade several traffic junctions in the city, effectively shutting down key parts of the city.