Sentence examples for a roadblock at a from inspiring English sources

If you try to drive up from Toamasina, the main port, to Antananarivo, the highland capital, you meet a roadblock at a bridge in Brickaville, where drunken soldiers, bored truck drivers and hundreds of porters congregate.

There are so many aberrant molecules in a tumor that blocking just one or two is like trying to stop all traffic in Manhattan with a roadblock at a single intersection.

"It was not a roadblock at all in terms of putting a rating to the horse.

But the downsizing of silicon electronics might hit a roadblock at around 10 nanometers, says Aaron Franklin, a researcher at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.

The decision put a roadblock — at least temporarily — in front of a national movement, financed by several philanthropists and businesspeople, to challenge entrenched protections for teachers, championed by their unions.

The project also is hitting a roadblock at the European Union's border with Bulgaria.

A new target, the mammal, had a new feature in its blood, platelets, which aid clotting and would have thrown a roadblock at ticks.

You can tell a story about overcoming a roadblock at work.

Researchers studying human embryos in the lab have always hit a roadblock at about 7 days the point where the embryo would usually attach to the uterus.

Austin's debilitating eye sight was a roadblock at work and for his daily lifestyle.

Authorities have now reportedly set up a roadblock at the main route leading to the refuge.