Sentence examples for mounted barricades from inspiring English sources

But their place in the growing queue of demonstrators was immediately taken by driving schools, roadside recovery firms and even private refuse contractors, who yesterday took part in massed go-slow processions or mounted barricades on city approach roads around the country.

The coup almost succeeded, being ultimately overturned by the reaction of Bucharesters, who organized street resistance against mutinied troops, mounted barricades, and, eventually, stormed into the executive's headquarters.

Pressure instead takes other forms, like the arrest of 13 drivers of Mr. Veselinovic's trucks last month on suspicion of entering the country illegally and helping to mount barricades.

Instead of mounting barricades we sit docilely in front of our TV sets while this minority band of politicians gerrymander themselves into the power of the majority and attempt to dismantle every right and protection built up to protect the poor, the weak and the elderly.

Twenty years later, student revolutionaries mounted the barricades gaily chanting "Merde au chagrin!" They piously believed that desire sets one free, and many still do.

Two protesters carrying Tibetan flags were seized by police when they mounted the barricade, albeit before President Zemin's convoy passed by.

It's all in the service of preparing a new generation to mount the barricades of nature.

In three of the past five years, including 2007, net real incomes from employment have barely budged even though the economy has been growing steadily, yet workers are not mounting the barricades (though nor are they throwing their money around).

Yet the "John Paul II bishops" who came to power in the 1980s and beyond saw Bernardin's style and views as too accommodating, and too reluctant to mount the barricades on behalf of a more assertive Catholic identity marked by a few hallmark issues rather than a spectrum of teachings.

It was Jacques Monod who, several days before the arrival of the allied forces into Paris, drafted the appeal to Paris citizens to mount the barricades.

Some successful defences have, however, been mounted at the barricades.