Sentence examples for erect roadblocks from inspiring English sources

It's not that they're trying to erect roadblocks.

In Port-au-Prince and some suburbs, security forces dispersed several groups as they tried to erect roadblocks.

But drug gunmen also operate kidnapping rings and erect roadblocks on highways in Tamaulipas and other northern states, where they hijack vehicles and rob and sometimes kill passengers.

In 2009, Lanier lost a crime battle with a federal judge who ruled her efforts to erect roadblocks around a bullet-riddled neighborhood called Trinidad were unconstitutional.

Following violent protests a few years back, the Swiss police now erect roadblocks halfway up the mountain, and the nasties in black ski masks are largely limited to hurling snowballs at the attendees' limousines as they whizz by.

In a speech on broadband policy in Washington in September, he said regulators must do their part to encourage competition and innovation and not "erect roadblocks". He took pains to mention Uber.

The police erected roadblocks, and schools were shut down.

Fearing further attacks, government security forces had erected roadblocks, using old tires, scrap metal, and branches.

The militants then erected roadblocks to search cars for any relatives who dared travel there for his funeral.

Youths erected roadblocks across much of the city and began stopping cars in a city long used to self-policing.

The urban fighting in Abidjan, meanwhile, had a different cast, as mobs of students erected roadblocks around the city and ransacked houses.