Sentence examples for stop the lorry from inspiring English sources

On Thursday afternoon Mr Callaghan called transport union bosses to Downing Street to try to stop the lorry strike being made official.Unless there is a sudden magic solution to the lorry drivers' strike, British industry will start to close down next week.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "We want to drive slowly on the motorway A16 from Dunkirk to Calais: one group from Dunkirk and a second from Boulogne, arriving at Calais to stop the lorries on the motorway.

If travelling by hitchhiking, only stop the lorries (trucks) and cars registered with white plates.

The oddity act works as a sort of clutch in the early X Factor live rounds, stopping the lorry of the show from rolling down the hill of believing its own hype.

The response was unprecedented in the dispute but the pickets failed to stop the coke lorries leaving.

"They got out of their car and climbed in the back of the garbage lorry to stop the destruction of their merchandise.

We need to do more to stop the fumes coming out of lorries and buses – that's what's doing the real damage.

To stop the march, the protesters exploded homemade bombs, threw marbles at the feet of police horses, and turned over a burning lorry.

Some of the most violent scenes in the 12-week-old mines' dispute erupted yesterday at the Orgreave coke works, Yorkshire, when police used riot gear in clashes with up to 7,000 pickets who tried to stop two lorry convoys leaving the plant.

Anti-ramming bollards can stop a lorry travelling at 55mph".

Four anti-fracking protesters have been arrested as they tried to stop a lorry delivering machinery to a potential methane-gas extraction site in Salford, Greater Manchester.