Sentence examples for main road preventing from inspiring English sources
The Israeli military presence was low key – just a couple of jeeps on the main road, preventing direct access.
Widespread flooding of a main road prevented the reoccupation of Hatteras Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks, leaving hundreds of people temporarily stranded and awaiting supplies by ferry.
The government worked with French authorities to disassemble the camp and has built a wall along the main road into Calais to prevent stowaways jumping into lorries.
Several thousand riot police have been sent to block a main road north of Bucharest, to prevent 10,000 striking coalminers from converging on the capital; they want a pay rise of more than a third and the reopening of two mines closed last year.
Fifty-nine percent said a lack of alternative routes for traffic was one of the main issues preventing road closures.
Not far from Mitrovica today, more than 50 Serbs blocked the main road to Montenegro, demanding that peacekeepers prevent Albanians from using the highway.
"The regime is cutting Qaboun into sectors by deploying tanks on the main roads and crossings to prevent any fighters from moving freely," said a rebel fighter from the neighborhood who gave only his first name, Ibrahim.
These prevented the people in council houses walking to the main road past privately owned houses.
The Western-backed coalition forces also sought to prevent the Iran-backed Houthi rebels from calling in reinforcements from the capital Sanaa by hitting the main road between the two cities.
The Pearl Continental is set back from a main road that is also the location of the Provincial Assembly and the High Court, and its parking lot is a gauntlet of zigzagging barriers to prevent just such an attack.
