Sentence examples for set up a roadblock from inspiring English sources

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Angry farmers set up a roadblock to stop trailers carrying huge grinding machines for the mine.

The local police near Kohat set up a roadblock and stopped the car.

On Thursday the group had set up a roadblock, holding up cars and robbing passengers.

The union, however, is trying to set up a roadblock, filing a grievance to halt contraction.

Two officers set up a roadblock to stop Thurston, but he drove past the obstacle without stopping.

Fleeing eastward, they shot and killed two policemen from nearby Nyack who had set up a roadblock.

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I see a group of policemen and soldiers ahead, setting up a roadblock.

But one of the militias, from Zawiyah, has already broken its promise to keep its weapons at home, setting up a roadblock on the main road a couple of miles west of the army base as a sign of resistance.

Rutaganda was also convicted of distributing weapons to the militia and setting up a roadblock outside his own garage where Tutsis, including children, were butchered and thrown into a pit.

US 1/187 RCT subsequently moved west, capturing Hill 97 east of Sukchon and Hill 104 to the north, before clearing the town itself and setting up a roadblock.

The protestors then broke into a federal building on the refuge and refused to leave, with members of this occupation setting up a roadblock and two of their armed men manning a nearby guard tower.

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