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to roadblocks

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Something that blocks or obstructs a road.

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Yet no passenger was searched, and whereas travellers on Turkmenistan roads were subject to roadblocks and the arbitrary search-and-seizure rules of the security forces, train travellers, it seemed, were beneath notice.

Human-rights lawyers and magistrates have also been targeted.Areas where the ruling party's grip has slipped have become hard to get to: roadblocks control people's movements and even diplomats have been stopped and threatened.

Human-rights lawyers and magistrates have also been targeted; several have fled the country, fearing for their lives.Areas where the ruling party's grip has slipped have become hard to get to: roadblocks control people's movements and even foreign diplomats have been stopped and threatened.

The same blunt speaking that works in the West can lead to roadblocks in the East.

A return to roadblocks near Tahrir Square closed both the United States and British embassies to the public on Sunday.

All kinds of companies run in to roadblocks that lead to failure over that kind of time frame, and most of those companies aren't building technologies on the bleeding edge of plasma physics.

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With awards as high as $1.1 million, they will aim to address roadblocks to economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Meanwhile, powerful political players are attempting to remove roadblocks to development.

A 6-to-3 majority declined to expand these exceptions to drug roadblocks.

However, Smith couldn't get to him due to the roadblocks.

An army bulldozer attempts to dismantle roadblocks at the entrance to Musaga, but was peacefully repelled.

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