Sentence examples for paralyzed traffic from inspiring English sources

A1 Fraud Charged in Haiti Vote Tens of thousands of people paralyzed traffic with flaming barricades and charged fraud in the tabulations of votes for the election for president in Haiti.

More than 20,000 construction workers, protesting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's use of a nonunion contractor, staged a turbulent rally in midtown Manhattan yesterday that erupted into clashes with the police and paralyzed traffic.

The demonstration and shooting incident outside American headquarters in the heart of Baghdad paralyzed traffic for hours and set up a tense confrontation where dozens of soldiers with shotguns, rifles, bayonets and grenade launchers pushed back the shouting remnants of a crowd that had reached 2,000 before gunfire erupted.

Dozens of road blocks have paralyzed traffic, as protesters have taken over college campuses and burned government radio stations and other buildings.

Thousands of protesters paralyzed traffic in Mexico's capital in January to demand a redo of the pact, which they said had hurt Mexican farmers.

Such a volcano could produce an eruption of ash, rock and pumice 1,000 times the strength of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, the worst volcanic event in modern American history, and 10,000 times that of the Icelandic eruptions in 2010 that paralyzed global air traffic for weeks.

More than six hours of solid rainfall starting at 5 a.m. flooded the streets of the capital, caused two rivers to break their banks and paralyzed public transportation, causing traffic chaos as tens of thousands of Athenians sought to reach their offices during the morning rush hour.

In traffic-paralyzed cities around the world, the best traffic management solutions have been to control the total volume of vehicles in a neighborhood.

Chicago had lived with its rail anachronisms and idiosyncrasies for decades, but everything fell apart in a 1999 blizzard that paralyzed the city's rails and backed up train traffic across the United States for months.

Sergeant Paudert and Officer Evans were shot to death on Thursday during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 East, prompting a wide dragnet that paralyzed the area and ended in a hail of gunfire between the police and two suspects — Jerry R. Kane Jr., 45, and his son Joseph, 16 — in a Wal-Mart parking lot here about 90 minutes later, as shoppers scurried for cover.

Advocates of restoring the deposed monarchy waged a general strike on Monday that paralyzed the capital, Katmandu, by closing shops and schools and halting most vehicle traffic.