Sentence examples similar to long barricades from inspiring English sources

Civil protection crews closed the main streets leading to the square to traffic and set up mile-long barricades to try to control the throng and allow official delegations through.

But she delivers those words as the pained response of a flustered woman desperately defending long-toppled barricades of propriety.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said, "For too long, the barricade of special interests in Washington has stopped Congress from acting against carbon pollution.

Charging the wall with hammers, they set about demolishing what had become the physical embodiment of the Iron Curtain, a 70-mile-long concrete barricade between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc.

Long lines of barricades were making the sidewalks feel as congested as cattle drives.

Long before the barricades fell and the tents were dragged away, activists had begun debating their next course of action.

For his canvas, the painter Tattfoo Tan was given concrete: the long, low traffic barricades known as Jersey barriers.

From Houston Street to Eighth Street, and from Sixth Avenue to Broadway, the area was sealed, and inside the barricades long lines of people were waiting to clear security.

In some spots the movement of foot traffic is closely shepherded by long lines of metal barricades.

What made last week's accident even more infuriating was that the Pentagon believed it had fixed the problem by replacing manual switches with electronic controls meant to keep the barricades open long enough for motorcades to pass through.

(Many impeccable ballet heterosexuals made that case long ago, but the barricade never goes away).