Sentence examples for pass a roadblock from inspiring English sources

According to the Central Command statement, "pro-government forces" requested the raids after "enemy troops" fired on them as they attempted to pass a roadblock.

The military was not allowing ambulances to pass a roadblock, the photographer said, which meant that rescue workers had to run in a crouch with stretchers to carry out the victims.

And then the next day, you hear about the Ukrainian army blowing up some car because it tried to pass a roadblock without being extorted by the guards.

We passed a police roadblock, and drove up a tree-lined dirt track in the direction of the fire.

We're told to keep silent and out of sight as we pass a series of police roadblocks.

Accounts of the incident varied, with some officials saying Mr. Cordone's car was hit near an American roadblock and others saying the car was shot trying to pass an American convoy after ignoring warnings.

When the police form a roadblock, try to get near the wall and pass the roadblock.

These plans foundered under a Republican Congress, but despite that roadblock, Clinton tripled worker-dislocation funds and passed a limited re-employment reform bill.

They were allowed to pass one Israeli roadblock, but then a soldier who was not aware they had been cleared opened fire.

The entry to the street was guarded by soldiers, who tugged aside a metal barricade to let me pass through an elaborate roadblock.

We passed a five-story office block with a banner that read, in English and Arabic, "Iraqi National Accord," and a little farther on we came to another roadblock.