The State Department drones, by contrast, carry no weapons and are meant to provide data and images of possible hazards, like public protests or roadblocks, to security personnel on the ground, American officials said.
In that sense, there is no such thing as "petty" corruption: police shakedowns in a public market, or roadblocks in the countryside where farmers must pay up in order to transport produce to the city, may yield seemingly trivial sums of money, but they help keep poor people poor.
The lack of public transportation and roadblocks, which were often manned by armed groups, made travel to clinic difficult.
flamesnm writes: I have a question regarding the rights of members of the public to ignore police roadblocks.
The rebels are still inside the town, but have to return to their barracks under the supervision of UN peacekeepers, stop carrying arms in public and dismantle all roadblocks.
This legal requirement has, so far, been a roadblock for public companies in the US.
But as they seek to move the issue from the theoretical to the concrete, some backers are recognizing a major roadblock: a public response more tepid than they had hoped.
Given the general reluctance of the oil industry to open their gas stations as well as those of their contracted distributors, how will you work to help the driving public overcome this major roadblock to accessing non petroleum based alternative energy sources?
Attempts to apply for public assistance were met with roadblocks.
ACCURACY -- Mrs. Clinton has run into roadblocks during her public life, including teachers in Arkansas in the 1970's who opposed competency tests, members of Congress who defeated her plan in 1994 to overhaul health care, the Chinese authorities who accused her of meddling in 1995, and conservative Republicans who criticized her book in 1996 as too light on family values.
