The phrase "army blocks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military operations, strategy, or even in gaming scenarios where army units are represented as blocks or pieces.
Example: "The game requires players to strategically position their army blocks to defend their territory against opponents."
Alternatives: "military units" or "troop formations".
The army blocked the airport runway; one demonstrator was killed.
Algeria's last seriously contested campaign before that was in 1992, when the army blocked a runoff parliamentary vote that an Islamic fundamentalist party seemed certain to win.
The study concluded that the army blocked aid workers from reaching Palestinians in need and added that "it appears that" the army also "in some instances targeted medical personnel".
When it first met in January 2011, stuffed with the pliant USDP victors of the rigged 2010 election and the 25% army block, the parliament did look like the rubber-stamping institution it was intended to be.
And from time to time this system of control breaks down.A spectacular example came in Algeria in 1991, when the army blocked a promising experiment in free elections that was starting to unfold under President Chadli Benjedid.
The former prisoner of conscience promised to first focus on national reconciliation, yet the country – one of south-east Asia's poorest – remains entangled in brutal conflicts along its borders, with the army blocking aid deliveries.
"Living on the ground with no cover is hard," says the 40-year-old father of eight who, like a dozen other men from Makhul, has been sleeping out in the open because the army blocked them from pitching tents after the demolition.
The Austrian army occupied a line which passed obliquely across the extremity of his right, and another line which passed along his left; they both intersected in front of him, where the main force of Charles' army blocked any movement forward.
Most egregiously, the army awarded itself an unelected block of a quarter of all seats in the new national and state parliaments so the constitution could not be changed without its consent.
