Sentence examples for block the runway from inspiring English sources
She said the group planned to block the runway all day and stop "hundreds" of planes from taking off.
Clark was furious and ordered Jackson to take the airfield, by force if necessary, and block the runway to prevent the Russians reinforcing with any extra troops.
Giving judgment in a packed courtroom in Karachi, Judge Rehmat Hussain Jafri said Sharif had ordered three fire engines to block the runway and had the landing lights switched off.
She returned to Cork last year and spent 10 days fasting outside the Irish department of foreign affairs in protest at the government's decision to allow US warplanes to refuel at Shannon airport on the way to Afghanistan; she was later arrested while attempting to block the runway.
His plane lifted off from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, the country's military headquarters, just as rebel tanks were rolling in, attempting to block the runway.
Wesley Clark, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, subsequently ordered Jackson, commander of KFOR, to block the runways of the airport and prevent Russia flying in reinforcements.
He returned to the Balkans with the ARRC during the Kosovo War, during which he famously refused to obey an order from American General Wesley Clark, his immediate superior in the NATO chain of command, to block the runways of Pristina Airport and isolate the Russian contingent that was positioned there.
He gained significant media attention in June 1999 after a confrontation with Clark in which he refused to block the runways of the Russian-occupied Pristina Airport and isolate the Russian troops there, thus preventing them from flying in reinforcements, after the order was queried by Captain James Blount.
Mr. Fields recalled landing one evening at Grabeski to find a deer blocking the runway.
Tens of thousands of people came to the airport, but the Army blocked the runway with trucks and troops.
It had clearly been planned: air-force troops blocking the runway of Quito's airport unfurled pre-printed banners.
