Sentence examples for erecting roadblocks from inspiring English sources

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Still, South Korean police appeared to take the threat seriously, erecting roadblocks, banning tourists and journalists from the area, and scuffling briefly with activists who tried to barge through their cordon.

The DEA should be spending its limited resources on targeting high priority narcotics rather than erecting roadblocks to medical marijuana". Keeping marijuana in the same category as heroin is absurd.

UN staff were forbidden to venture out while crowds roved the streets tearing down election posters, erecting roadblocks and demanding the withdrawal of foreign peacekeepers who are suspected of bringing a disease that has killed 1,100 and infected more than 20,000 since last month.

"In Bangui, civilians have been erecting roadblocks after curfew in most neighbourhoods of the city," Ms Douzima-Lawson said.

The European Union, having already killed the WorldCom wcom andSprint fon merger, is now erecting roadblocks to the union of America Online aol and Time Warner twx.

In Europe, France's new President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been busy promising to get tough on immigrants and erecting roadblocks to Turkey's bid for European Union membership.

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

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.

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