Sentence examples for block the route from inspiring English sources
Should the Balkan countries block the route entirely, Greece may be forced to deal with a logjam of refugees.
The lengths they will go to stop lorries so migrants can get on board have become ever more extreme – as well as cutting down trees to block the route, they set fire to trucks, lob petrol bombs and threaten drivers with chainsaws and machetes.
The deep-water shipping channels in these straits can be so narrow that a single burning supertanker and its spreading oil slick could block the route for other tankers, executives said; in these and several other straits in Indonesia, there would not be not enough room for naval escorts to screen tankers from attack, even if the escorts were available.
The general, he said, deeming the talk serious, pulled out a map of the capital and provided a disconcertingly elaborate plan to execute one: overturning trucks to block the route from the main American base to the Green Zone, seizing television stations, besieging Parliament, and so on.
In some cases the cultivated areas totally block the route, which is done deliberately by large-scale farmers in order to hinder livestock moving in the vicinity of their land.
Domina represented three landowners trying to block the route approved by Gov. Dave Heineman (R) for the project.
As described in an analysis by Michael Gordon in today's Times, the allies will use air strikes, Special Forces and conventional ground troops to strike targets within cities and block the routes in and out.
About 100 people were on the opposite platform and about 50 riot police blocked the route across the tracks.
The trail to a buffet reception in a five-star hotel tonight began with airport-level security blocking the route to the champagne and canapes.
Roads are almost empty, apart from emergency vehicles and a police van that blocks the route into the 16 mile-radius exclusion zone.
