Barbed wire blocked our way and before we jumped, my father injured his hands pulling it back.
With barbed wire blocking railroad tracks here, most tourists on the "Security Tourism Train" see this brand new station as the end of the line.
Coils of barbed wire blocked the desolate roads; thousands of Indian soldiers patrolled the streets to enforce a strict military curfew.
The shooting outside the Republican Guard officers' club broke out after protesters had reacted angrily to an officer who shredded a poster of Mr. Morsi that had been hung on the barbed wire blocking the entrance.
Only when researchers covered the small wooden huts with metal screening and connected it to a grounding wire, blocking man-made electromagnetic noise, did the birds go in the right direction again.
Coils of razor wire blocked the end of the road where I lived, and the owners of the sleazy shisha cafe on the corner, where men from the Gulf sat with heavily made-up women until dawn, had planted an Egyptian flag in the plant pot that weighed one end of the wire down.
A half-dozen army tanks and hundreds of soldiers behind a barrier of barbed wire blocked the final stretch of the road, and when the march reached the barricade around 7 p.m., young counterprotesters, including some armed with knives and machetes, started fistfights and threw rocks and, ultimately, Molotov cocktails.
The razor wire blocked off neighborhoods as Iraqi security personnel and U.S. soldiers battled against a Sunni Muslim insurgency so effective that the local police chief concedes it was the insurgents — not the police or army — who were regarded by young boys as heroic.
Warning signs and multiple fences, some of which are lined with barbed wire, block the trail at multiple points.
A former Goldman Sachs secretary in London was found guilty yesterday of embezzling at least $7 million from her bosses in an elaborate fraud in which she secretly wired blocks of money to bank accounts in Cyprus.
