Sentence examples for abandoned roadblocks from inspiring English sources

Anticipating the attacks, the Palestinian police also abandoned roadblocks in Ramallah, and no men in uniform were evident in the city on Monday.

Following two more North Korean attacks the Americans near Hill 163 were forced to abandon the roadblock after running out of ammunition.

According to the Firat news agency, a senior PKK commander, Murat Karayilan, has ordered all militants to abandon checkpoints and roadblocks in Turkey and withdraw to their bases.

Unable to hurdle legal roadblocks, Major League Baseball yesterday abandoned its plan to eliminate the Minnesota Twins and the Montreal Expos for the coming season.

It frequently posts messages and photos of the criminal activities in the state, including but not limited to law enforcement in action, photos of alleged criminals, vehicles of reported extortionists, abandoned vehicles left on the roadside, roadblocks, arsons, oil theft activities, drug traffickers on the job, and the like.

The roadblock sits alongside an abandoned Israeli airport.

The van, packed with 500 pounds of homemade explosives, broke through a police roadblock in Northern Ireland and was later abandoned close to the border in the northwestern county of Donegal.

Reports from the field in the last few days showed that some United Nations troops were so frightened by the reputation of the rebels that they abandoned their vehicles as soon as they were stopped at a roadblock by the rebels.

And thousands of his supporters defied government curfews and military roadblocks, by abandoning their cars and hiking for hours to reach the remote border post to see him.

A second big haulage federation, Unostra, went further, asking its members not to abandon the hundreds of roadblocks or some 110 refinery and fuel depot barricades being manned around France.

Just abandoned.