Sentence examples for block off traffic from inspiring English sources
Except for two police vans used to block off traffic, the police were conspicuously absent.
When the committee first discussed the proposals in February, neither group had the necessary permission from the Ninth Precinct to block off traffic from the street.
The school may ask local police to block off traffic in front of the school when buses drop off and pick up children.
He rarely missed an important pro soccer game in Medellín - police would block off traffic to allow Pablo's motorcade easy access to and from the stadium he had built years before - and he was sighted shopping in a fashionable Bogotá mall over the Christmas holidays.
Known as a giffa (raid), troops block off traffic and set up a cordon before going house to house in search of people who have not enlisted.
Before the gunfire, the mood at the protest became more tense, as protesters blocked off traffic on West Florissant Avenue.
Police and fire vehicles and ambulances surrounded the site, on Columbus Circle, and blocked off traffic in the area.
Police responded by blocking off traffic near parliament and deploying four armoured vehicles and a water cannon.
Many rich-country Critical Mass rides have become massive, institutionalized affairs, with cops blocking off traffic and whole families joining for a nice, safe day out in streets where bikes have long been a common sight.
As Mr. Schussel spoke, about 1,500 officers surrounded the Parliament building and blocked off traffic on the Ringstrasse, Vienna's most famous boulevard, in anticipation of up to 20,000 protesters.
