Sentence examples for sealed off roads from inspiring English sources

After the violence, security forces sealed off roads leading to the ministry area, which is in the Alawi district of the city.

Chilean authorities issued a red alert and sealed off roads surrounding the volcano, located in a tourist enclave outside the city of Temuco.

At 5am on 3 August - less than 24 hours after Bailey had been shot - more than 200 heavily-armed police sealed off roads around the Bakery's headquarters on San Pablo Avenue and at four other locations around Oakland.

The tensions between American forces and the Mahdi Army were evident in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad on Monday, when the Mahdi militia sealed off roads to stage a demonstration in front of Mr. Sadr's office, demanding a halt to American raids.

It said the Israeli authorities had sealed off roads leading from 10 Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem, but no roads leading out of Israeli settlements.

Mr. Raxit said the authorities had sealed off roads into Pishan and had stationed security forces around the hospital where the dead and injured had been taken.

Hundreds of American and Iraqi security forces, backed by attack helicopters and unmanned aerial surveillance drones, surged into the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada on Monday night, sealing off roads and bridges, searching vehicles, and raiding homes and offices.

While in most parts of the West Bank, settlers take up residence in areas near Palestinian neighborhoods, in Old Hebron they are actually taking property, sealing off roads and choking traffic from what were once bustling Palestinian shops--and getting away with it because they have a military to support them.

There were other barricades sealing off roads going to rebel-held districts.

They prepared to suspend bus routes and seal off roads and parking lots.

Working in small teams, sometimes independently and sometimes in conjunction with Afghan rebels or British Special Air Service forces, American commandos have been bombarding suspected command posts, firing on enemy vehicles and sealing off roads near Kandahar by blowing up bridges.