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barricading

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Present participle of barricade

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The protesters are occupying the Vera Anstey room in the heart of the university after barricading themselves in using bicycle locks earlier this month.

Instead, before sunrise on July 6th, troops and armed police suddenly began clearing residents off the Garvaghy Road and barricading them into their homes.Ms Mowlam's actions produced a relatively peaceful march, but they dismayed even some unionists.

Widespread newspaper coverage of protestors' plans in the run-up to Mr Bush's visit gave the impression that the nation would be barricading the palace.

Short of living alone in a remote wilderness, barricading oneself from the onslaughts of the world is an ultimately futile enterprise.Barry Edelson Huntington, New York* SIR – The sad truth about home-schooling is that it is selfish, cruel, unchristian, and un-American.

At times, scarcely a day seems to go by in Paris without the riot police barricading the ministerial district against putative invasions of banner-waving workers (most of them remarkably good-natured).Foreigners assume, therefore, that France's trade unions must be strong.

From December 26th, the National Assembly was transformed into a battleground, when politicians from the opposition Democratic Party (DP) began a sit-in, barricading themselves inside to deny the ruling party access to the main chamber and Speaker's office.

When earlier this year the opposition found secret-service dossiers on parliamentarians in room 529 of the National Assembly building, it tried to put a stop to the assembly's business by blocking the entrance to the chamber and barricading the speaker in his office.

Some villages and valleys are already barricading themselves in.A Syrian denouement may not yet be imminent but the regime is tottering.

Ms Mowlam's decision to use force so that a Protestant Orange Order march on July 6th through a Catholic neighbourhood in Portadown could go ahead, barricading local residents in their homes, has infuriated nationalists of all description, not just the hardline republicans.

From the first episode, he hordes valuable supplies and builds a callous exterior, barricading himself from emotional ties to anyone.

However, barricading, draining and building on the flood plains around many major rivers – such as the Danube and the Rhine in Germany – is also a large part of the problem.

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