Sentence examples for road blockade from inspiring English sources

A road blockade of the capital persists, intended to make its people suffer with shortages of essential supplies.

He is widely expected to give up the road blockade in the next few days or face military action.

A three-week-long road blockade by the coca growers that ended last week did serious harm to American and Bolivian efforts to encourage alternative agricultural development.

Mr. Quispe's road blockade was so effective that the air force was sent to deliver food to cities. Meat became scarce, and vegetables and fruits more than doubled in price in many markets.

In June 2009, police opened fire on a peaceful demonstration by 2,000 protesters organised by the Asociacion Interetnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (Aidesep) at a road blockade in Bagua, northern Peru.

KATMANDU, Nepal, April 26 — Maoist rebels, apparently making a good-will gesture, announced a unilateral three-month cease-fire late on Wednesday and suspended a crippling three-week road blockade that had cut off the transport of essential goods into the capital.

In response, people from across economic lines joined together in protests and road blockades.

The decline has caused increasing unrest, including road blockades by the unemployed around the country.

Frequent fighting, coupled with Israeli road blockades, has made travel both time-consuming and dangerous.

Today, protest leaders threatened to set up weekly road blockades that would become progressively longer until the government reverses the austerity plan and releases more than a dozen protesters arrested in previous road blockades.

Soon after this, he launched a series of road blockades, which became his trademark, and gained national recognition.