Sentence examples for troops stopped from inspiring English sources

Troops stopped him and deleted his photographs (foreigners, he said, were not allowed to take them).

When troops stopped the car, the trailing truck turned around and fled.

The British troops stopped the crowd and took the man to hospital barely alive.

The troops stopped at the Old Stone House, a two-story, three-hundred-year-old Dutch farmhouse.

Villagers said that in June 1967, when Israel captured the Golan Heights, its troops stopped short of Ghajar, considering it Lebanese territory.

Political tensions were so great in the years following the invasion that Iraqi politicians told him that only the heavy presence of international troops stopped the newly formed government in Baghdad from being toppled.

Why can't the NATO troops stop the killing?

"People won't stop demonstrations unless the foreign troops stop night raids and arresting and killing people," he said.

At checkpoints in busy intersections, troops stop cars with tinted windows and buses for quick inspections.

"Why didn't the hundreds of paramilitary troops stop him like they do with the common passengers?" he asked.

In the drug wars, police officers on traffic duty have been ground troops, stopping and searching cars.