Sentence examples for blockades to from inspiring English sources

Residents set up blockades to keep out the police and prevent more arrests.

Both Syrian forces and rebels use blockades to pressure their foes to surrender, often causing widespread suffering of civilians.

Byrne passed through several police blockades to reach the city, at times waiting patiently after fires jumped the highways.

Political violence has convulsed the country in recent months as opposition activists staged attacks, strikes and transportation blockades to press their demands.

Meanwhile, farmers and truckers in Colombia set up blockades to protest against free-trade agreements with America and the European Union.

A Hong Kong University poll of 513 people last week found that 83% of respondents want the road blockades to end.

The French president intends to blockade Monaco to force it to pay French taxes.

Roads were picketed, then blockaded to enforce the strike.

Sally Meredith joined a blockade to stop a logging road in 1990.

And in Gaza, it means expanding exceptions to the blockade to allow the import of cement and reconstruction materials.

The rampage was spontaneous but also calculated: telephone and telegraph wires were cut and trains blockaded to prevent outside interference.