Sentence examples for blocked off traffic from inspiring English sources

On one side of the street, Obama aides scurried, the police blocked off traffic, and people waited in the sun, holding signs that said "Thank You" — though by lunchtime, hundreds were chanting the opposite.

The police blocked off traffic for them.

Before the gunfire, the mood at the protest became more tense, as protesters blocked off traffic on West Florissant Avenue.

Police and fire vehicles and ambulances surrounded the site, on Columbus Circle, and blocked off traffic in the area.

As Mr. Schussel spoke, about 1,500 officers surrounded the Parliament building and blocked off traffic on the Ringstrasse, Vienna's most famous boulevard, in anticipation of up to 20,000 protesters.

In a June 24 incident on Bannu's Peshawar Road, young men blocked off traffic and set a pile of tires on fire to protest what they described as mistreatment by the soldiers and the slow pace of ration distribution.

Eventually the rest of the demonstrators joined them, blocking off traffic in the street as officers formed a line in front of the station.

Except for two police vans used to block off traffic, the police were conspicuously absent.

When the committee first discussed the proposals in February, neither group had the necessary permission from the Ninth Precinct to block off traffic from the street.

Many rich-country Critical Mass rides have become massive, institutionalized affairs, with cops blocking off traffic and whole families joining for a nice, safe day out in streets where bikes have long been a common sight.

He rarely missed an important pro soccer game in Medellín - police would block off traffic to allow Pablo's motorcade easy access to and from the stadium he had built years before - and he was sighted shopping in a fashionable Bogotá mall over the Christmas holidays.