Sentence examples for blocking the gate from inspiring English sources

They grumbled when they found barricades blocking the gate behind home plate, making their stay longer than it had to be.

A group of protestors managed to suspend the site preparation by blocking the gate to the site so that lorries carrying crucial drilling equipment and rigs couldn't get through.

Sitting in chairs on the pavement blocking the gate to the station, the officers complained that since the revolution they have been called upon to confront protesters but at the same time demonized whenever they hurt or killed one.

Mr Taylor's staff witnessed the use of the technique on Friday as 90 police officers descended on the village and removed protestors blocking the gate to the proposed oil and gas site.

There were two vans blocking the gate so he tooted the horn to go in, and he found that it was the same people employed by National Grid to enforce its policy.

It is, however, acceptable to move pucks to the side of the board using your hands, if you feel they are blocking the gate.

A police vehicle blocking the gates stopped the escape attempt.

Previous actions have included protesters blocking the gates and supergluing themselves to the fences.

A soldier fired into a crowd blocking the gates of the palace and pelting military vehicles with stones.

In April 1983, as the US Air Force started to airlift in the equipment needed for Cruise missiles, the women formed another huge chain, linking arms around the base and blocking the gates.

THERE was a chill in the morning air in 2005 when dozens of artists from China, Europe and North America emerged from their red-brick studios here to find the police blocking the gates to Suojiacun, their compound on the city's outskirts.