Sentence examples for stopped a block from inspiring English sources

He was stopped a block away by officers in plain clothes as he fled with the woman's purse, and found to be carrying a.38-caliber pistol, authorities said.

The march was later stopped a block away from Trump's gaudy Fifth Avenue skyscraper where earlier in the day protester Margot Borske, 61, a nurse practitioner, told the Guardian: "We can continue to make our protest heard for every piece of legislation, every cabinet appointment, every amendment he tries to overturn [to] set this country back 50 years.

In Uganda, after decentralisation, once central government stopped a block grant, primary heath care was not given the allocation at local level that had been expected by the Ministry of Finance.

The gaslights stop a block or two west of the town green, and Main Street turns residential.

The predawn ritual of getting him, with his brother, to the bus stops a block away requires planning and some trickery.

Their main recommendations tend to stop a block short of the destination: the solutions are unspecific, when they are not outright fanciful, like their yearning for a third-party presidential campaign.

The train stops a block from the beach.

Winehouse joined a campaign to stop a block of flats being built beside the George Tavern, a famous London East End music venue.

The cab stopped a few blocks shy of the World Trade Center site where the shouts of a gathered crowd were wildly audible.

Minutes later, the police stopped a minivan 20 blocks north, on West 142nd Street.

The A train stops a few blocks away, though most parents drive their children in.