Sentence examples for roadblocks around from inspiring English sources

Some 600 police officers set up roadblocks around the stadium to separate Quilmes and visiting River fans.

Young Kikuyu men set up roadblocks around the town and attacked journalists trying to cover the violence.

They have set up roadblocks around the capital and disobeyed orders from the governing Transitional National Council to leave Tripoli.

Elsewhere, armed groups have seized both swanky and backpacker resorts, taken control of police stations and set up roadblocks around the capital, Suva.

It set up roadblocks around Pollsmoor Prison, outside Cape Town, where Mandela is held, & patrolled the black townships Tells about other repressive measures.

The urban fighting in Abidjan, meanwhile, had a different cast, as mobs of students erected roadblocks around the city and ransacked houses.

Some 1,000 former paramilitary troops ended a two-day roadblock around the Tikal Mayan ruins in the northeast after President Alfonso Portillo agreed to meet with them later this week.

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Thousands of members of his new green-uniformed militia have set up roadblocks all around the country, where they beat up anyone who has not taken the precaution of spending a day's wages on a ZANU membership card.The "terror teens" as they are known, have been expertly trained.

The militants' attack, however, showed their ability to elude roadblocks and sneak around the countryside.

Bulgarian soldiers have set up roadblocks and checkpoints around the city.