Sentence examples for residents block from inspiring English sources

We were in the same residents' block for graduate students.

Angry residents block a highway in protest and the UPP commander requests reinforcement to control the situation.

Some cities have teamed up with a software developer that has come up with an online registry to help cities and residents block delivery of the types of mail they do not want.

Too often dreams like Mr. Lesko's die on Long Island, whose residents block so-called smart growth projects, fearing high-density construction and too many of the "wrong" kind of people.

LUCILLE FOSTEL, the president of the Ozone Park Residents Block Association, has lived in Ozone Park for more than 45 years and has no intention of ever moving away if she can help it.

Lerner assesses the diverse strategies used by affected communities to win legal settlements, educate and mobilize their residents, block permits and expansion of polluting facilities, force cleanup of contamination, extract concessions and pollution reduction from fenceline industrial plants, and target enforcement by government.

Omdurman residents blocked their streets with rocks and pipes in an attempt to keep security forces out.

In the northern city of Santiago this month, for example, a policeman was shot in the leg after residents blocked roadways with burning tires and trees.

At the Jabalya refugee camp, a militant stronghold that is home to 100,000 Palestinians, residents blocked entrances with mounds of rubble and sand.

In February and March, residents blocked highways to protest the plan, pointing to the creation of the earlier guerrilla safe zone as a naive experiment gone totally wrong.

The soldiers occupied homes, detained residents, blocked off access roads, vandalised property, beat protestors, and raised the Israeli flag at the top of several buildings.