Sentence examples for blocked motorways from inspiring English sources

Three Belgian truckers' unions, whose members blocked motorways, ports, frontiers and oil depots, accepted measures proposed by the government to help offset recent fuel price rises and said they would end their blockades at midnight.

In Monterrey, one of the country's leading business centres, armed men linked to drug gangs blocked motorways with lorries in an attempt to hamper army operations near the US border.

Further ingredients for a really excellent seasonal show were "snow" – albeit of a strange light-entertainment variety as opposed to the sort that blocked motorways and caused school closures – and large quantities of tinsel.

Earlier this month protesters in several towns in Punjab, Pakistan's wealthiest province, smashed windscreens, blocked motorways, shut down markets and set fire to the offices of parliamentarians and an electric utility.

When angry road hauliers have blocked motorways and roads in central London, the police have simply stood by and watched exactly the kind of supine reaction that the British were rightly castigating the French police for last week.If the protesters have now indeed decided on a tactical withdrawal, their timing looks good.

A fond image persists of coal (and steel) pulling off economic miracles and leading post-war Germany back to wealth.So the country's 85,000 miners, successors to 500,000 Bergleute employed in the Germany of the 1950s, felt they had the force behind them when they shut down the country's 18 surviving pits in the Ruhr and the Saarland, blocked motorways and laid siege to Bonn, the capital.

Many viewed the pictures of hundreds of trucks blocking motorways with an odd exhilaration.

She claimed she was chased by taxi drivers, throwing rocks and blocking motorways leading to Paris airports, while police watched and "did nothing".

France is easily the biggest beneficiary of the EU's current subsidy regime, and French governments live in terror of militant farmers dumping manure on Paris boulevards or blocking motorways with their tractors.

• Lorry drivers threaten to block motorway junctions • Petrol stations in Scotland and northern England start to run dry.

Mr Ocalan has learned a lesson since 1993, when the PKK kidnapped two dozen foreign tourists in Turkey's south-east, made about 100 attacks on Turkish-run businesses in Western Europe, and blocked German motorways to air the Kurdish cause.