Sentence examples for set up a blockade from inspiring English sources

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He has set up a blockade around Ouattara's hotel headquarters, forcing the opposition team to rely on the U.N. for food and protection.

If government forces do set up a blockade, it would double the number of people living under siege in Syria virtually overnight.

In a residential suburb, Adjame, the police beat up students and children who set up a blockade outside the marketplace, witnesses said.

Harkening back to the famous strike a decade earlier in which the city's janitors blocked rush hour traffic on the 14th Street bridge to win union recognition, the officials set up a blockade at the intersection outside the NLRB headquarters.

According to Reuters "players and staff were left stranded inside the vehicle for four hours as angry fans set up a blockade by lighting bonfires in front and behind the bus so it could not move".

Facing off with the world's largest coal company, which literally sank its first historic mine nearby in 1895, Rocky Branch farmers, residents and supporters fighting to protect their Shawnee Hills community against a violation-ridden and potentially devastating strip mine set up a road blockade this morning.

We were on a canal, setting up a blockade.

The prequel trilogy begins (32 years before the original film) with the corrupt Trade Federation setting up a blockade of battleships around the planet Naboo.

The countries of Eastern Europe, too, set out on the course of aggravating relations with the PRA [People's Republic of Albania] and created a difficult situation by setting up a blockade on Albania jointly with the Soviet government".

"The ranks of the police who were several deep opened up and the police did a series of cavalry charges and pushed us back into the village and then blockades were set up - a police blockade at one side of the bridge and a miners blockade at the other side of the bridge.