Sentence examples for roadblocks shut from inspiring English sources

In three days of violence, a dozen illegal roadblocks shut down the city centre.

In Abidjan, a ten-o'clock curfew enforced by gendarmes at roadblocks had shut down night life, but the city was no longer a conflict zone.

With roadblocks having shut all six of the main highways in and out of the capital, La Paz has become a city under siege.

The police erected roadblocks, and schools were shut down.

A few small towns and cities in southern Pakistan, Miss Bhutto's home territory, were reported shut by strikes and roadblocks.

A campaign for gun control laws that emerged since Friday's schoolhouse massacre ran into a roadblock on Wednesday after Facebook temporarily shut down a page called Occupy the NRA.

During a recent stroll through Stratford's gleaming new cityscape it was hard to judge what is lasting change and what facade: For all the celebrations of a multicultural and multifaith Olympics, some Muslim residents fasting for Ramadan complained that their local mosque had been shut down by an Olympic roadblock, forcing them to travel 45 minutes to another district.

The road outside had been shut down, thanks to a roadblock of protesters' bodies, and people peacefully milled around as Horner waved a makeshift flag in the dark.

Last term had barely ended, having been extended through the summer to give students, shut out of the university by roadblocks, extra classes.

But if disputes with governments over what content is appropriate cause it to be shut out of more countries, these roadblocks could divert users to other local social networks.

Six weeks after its debut inside yellow cabs roiled New York's taxi industry, a cab-hailing app company said Tuesday that it would shut down the service, citing "obstacles and roadblocks" placed before it by the city.