Sentence examples for blockade of roads from inspiring English sources

Her Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNPP) has been staging a nationwide blockade of roads, railways and waterways.

Activists are discussing direct action, which could include organising a blockade of roads between Devon and Cornwall.

This month members of another ethnic group, the Tharu, in the western part of the Terai, launched a ruinous two-week blockade of roads across the country.

He demanded demonstrators remove their blockade of roads in Hong Kong Island's Western, Central and Wan Chai districts by Monday, and let 3,000 government employees go to work at the main office complex, which has been besieged by protesters.

In a statement issued midday, the Maoists warned that they would reimpose their blockade of roads leading to the capital if Parliament failed immediately to announce elections for the "unconditional" redrawing of the Constitution.

In all, about 60 people have died in a month-long transport blockade called by the main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP .The BNP's leader, Khaleda Zia, who has twice served as prime minister, has been confined to a party office in Dhaka, while the blockade of roads, railways and waterways has paralysed the country.

It led to widespread blockading of roads by Protestants, and rioting and violence among both Protestants and Catholics.

At mass rallies, he has threatened blockades of roads, airports and oil wells by his followers if the president even introduces a bill to Congress.

She publicly promised, at the very least, to tell them personally of her final decision.She explicitly stated in the Commons that she would not allow the blockading of roads or ports this year.

He thought them unfair to Polish farmers and tried to have them revised by organising blockades of roads, a tactic which first brought him to public attention in 1992, though then it was to protest against painful "shock therapy" imposed after the fall of communism.He decried those reforms, personified by Leszek Balcerowicz, the brains behind Poland's successful transition to a market economy.

Unions called a general strike this month, and are plotting a blockade of the roads to South Africa, this tiny hilly kingdom's neighbour and main trading partner.