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    roadblock


    roadblocks


    1. roadblock, and problem that ever stood in his way was in inevitable danger of


    2. Fortunately they were soon shot dead in a roadblock


    3. * For our American readers, imagine a State Trooper with a loaded M60 machine gun in an armoured vehicle aimed at you during a routine roadblock for DUI


    4. Most probably because the SAP was sued in the past, there was a very strict policy on what a SAP roadblock should conform to


    5. With enough training a complete two way roadblock could be created in a few minutes with all the cones and lights needed to search vehicles and people


    6. It was certainly hazardous for anyone to turn around when noticing the roadblock as a few Flying Squad cars was around to chase down any attempt to escape


    7. So all in all, the suspect would be chased down and be given a fatherly talk for his long haired liberal ways of avoiding a police roadblock


    8. The lead SUV made it through the roadblock behind us as the second one angled back toward the road ahead of us


    9. The roadblock back there was set in motion many hours ago


    10. Except for a drug interdiction roadblock in the middle of nowhere, the drive up the coast was uneventful

    11. As they grew and took form, fear prickled his skin from his testicles to his scalp, as he realized that what he was looking at was a roadblock across the highway


    12. He grabbed his and Beth’s bags and dove sideways from the door, scurrying behind a rock, grateful to note that there hadn’t been anyone at the roadblock willing to take up chase across the field of rocks


    13. Shit, a roadblock had been set up


    14. Spirit that will tear down every roadblock in your


    15. She had never hit a roadblock earlier in her life—for that matter, her life had been all of eighteen years till now


    16. He said an internal investigation determined that the roadblock had been set up in the same spot a month earlier and was routinely designate to conduct


    17. This question may raise a roadblock that could get in the way, if not dealt with


    18. Clarity and Cynthia stepped out of the car and walked across a corn field to Civic Center Way, past the roadblock


    19. The University professor tried to get back to us the following Monday but Aguero had set up a roadblock and refused to allow the team to cross the shared land at the gate


    20. We should be in Bala Buluk by next morning, where we will practice roadblock and checkpoint procedures with the local police contingent

    21. As we got closer to the roadblock, I was certain that it


    22. Mike slowly inched his van towards the roadblock


    23. was within a few hundred yards of the first roadblock


    24. are specially trained agents and dogs stationed at every roadblock


    25. behind the town sign is a roadblock consisting of a dozen law


    26. roadblock,” said the man


    27. I understood that this was a do or die roadblock


    28. Then he hit a roadblock


    29. Unfortunately, the present poor weather is helping the enemy, while our attack helicopter squadron doesn’t have enough helicopters left to also deal with the situation at the Chindong-ni roadblock


    30. ‘’Ingrid, the enemy battalion that was attacking our roadblock in Chindong-ni just blew through it

    31. Through poor sentry discipline and ill-prepared defensive works, that battalion had allowed Chinese soldiers to infiltrate its positions and to outflank the American roadblock across the road to Chungam-ni


    32. The chase would result in a roadblock ahead but probably little more, because they would be lazy and confident about capture


    33. The men at the roadblock and those eating Carla’s dust were not surprised when she slowed down


    34. To her delight, the men at the roadblock had climbed into their vehicles to give chase, but as they turned in the road, they blocked the way for their own team


    35. And, around the next bend was a roadblock


    36. He had just gotten out of his ride and was walking towards a group of uniformed goons setting up a roadblock just a little further down around a curve in the road


    37. It is what it is, and this is what it is until I run out of gas or into a roadblock or a snowdrift too large to bust through


    38. “Fuck, there’s the roadblock,” I muttered


    39. “The folks here say there is a roadblock set up a few miles down the road and the Feds have been crawling all over the state


    40. We had a close call at a roadblock up near Big Timber

    41. and ultimately creates a roadblock, often for no obvious reason


    42. Of course, she wanted to be prime minister, but she wasn’t going to be a roadblock for Modi


    43. Every regional channel—news or general entertainment—would have a Modi ad roadblock at 9 on the night before a poll


    44. How can I make her see that she doesn’t have to feel guilty for being what she is,” he said, “and that we can overcome this roadblock between us?”


    45. "It’s a roadblock!" he shouted and slammed his hand down on the steering wheel


    46. With a steady speed, I head toward roadblock


    47. I see about ten men behind roadblock that are dressed in camo, must be some branch of the Armed Forces


    48. roadblock, however, Tiller was up in the hills


    49. Levi was shot dead by police while attempting to run a security roadblock in New Hampshire


    50. Some single parents tend to see their situation as a huge roadblock for living a happy life






    1. Perhaps passable by the One Elf, to Alec, the roadblocks were as impossible to scale as the walls of Lock Core


    2. The next thing is to write down the obstacles and roadblocks


    3. Roadblocks could be dangerous in the 1980s for it happened that Russian made hand- grenades were thrown at us by unimaginative terrorists


    4. The COIN units still made sure to follow up on all suspicious tracks and held roadblocks all over the border areas to make it as difficult as possible


    5. His voice changed, it was steady and quieter: “Don’t you know that since crack cocaine showed up in the province, Gordy has been something of an anti-drug nut? He is the man responsible for those infernal roadblocks on the coastal highway


    6. The federal police, not wishing to be embarrassed by Port Authority cops, had increased its presence in Limon, and the battle of the roadblocks was underway


    7. "I was met with inaction, delays, roadblocks, obstruction and lies," retired


    8. "I was met with inaction delays, roadblocks, obstruction and lies


    9. After he encountered more and more roadblocks thrown up by


    10. But unlike Puchniak, Read wasn't willing to accept the roadblocks he

    11. There can be roadblocks that prevent us from allowing our creativity to flow freely


    12. The Supreme Court reasoned that law enforcement spot-checks and roadblocks on land are not feasible on the nation’s waterways


    13. Whatever roadblocks are standing in your way


    14. Another reason for the roadblocks concerns the skunk that


    15. I’d have to deal with was many miles of roadblocks


    16. there were roadblocks posted


    17. they would have to work out a plan that would circumvent all of the roadblocks the Liberal


    18. “With your approval and assurance that there will be no roadblocks


    19. roadblocks in front of us, but isn’t it at least as true that we often put up roadblocks of our own? Ultimately, if we refuse the call, the blame lies


    20. us of the roadblocks that stand in the way of our charioteer: those

    21. Justice would see rocks and logs and other roadblocks placed over hilltops until drivers learn, the hard way if necessary, to drive within their vision and braking ability


    22. our lives—aren’t roadblocks to our success; they’re the very process of


    23. We will only need to keep strong outposts and roadblocks in Wau and Lae to keep them bottled up in Salamaua, where my planes can strafe and bomb them at will, without the need to risk thousands of our soldiers in a ground attack


    24. However, we are trying to get confirmation of the establishment of roadblocks on all major highways throughout the western states


    25. area and the local police have set up roadblocks outside but we've found


    26. roadblocks to initiative and


    27. Maybe, the Sangh Parivar’s nationalist lament over a lost Akhand Bharat, patriotic though, is misplaced for with one Musalman for every two Hindus in it; Islam would have erected enough roadblocks for the undivided India to modernize itself


    28. All roadblocks are to be removed and all civilian traffic is to be and allowed


    29. The police have roadblocks out by now


    30. They had had no trouble passing the roadblocks in the city, but now as Kate's car turned into the train yards, a light suddenly flashed on, and Kate saw that her way was blocked by several policemen

    31. With Evette’s directions we were past roadblocks and out of the city with a minimum of pain involved


    32. 95 heading north toward Baltimore, riding in silence, hoping they were ahead of any roadblocks they expected would sprout on roads leaving the capital


    33. Video showing Americans who looked as ordinary as everyone’s neighbors being placed in trucks and buses, to be driven to train stations, was interspersed with breathless broadcasts from reporters at roadblocks talking over video of cars being checked and the occasional attempt to speed away stopped by hails of bullets


    34. so why does a writer still encounter mental roadblocks when starting their piece? This is perfectly natural even on topics that one feels they are knowledgeable of


    35. As reporters shouted questions and moved toward the Wilkinsons, their friends became roadblocks, and the victim’s parents disappeared behind the gates of their home


    36. Before the curfew was imposed and the roadblocks went up


    37. My friends from the city told stories of having to negotiate around the roadblocks once the waters had receded to discover the fate or state of their houses and then working for days with pumps to draw out the filthy, stagnant water lying in their basements and lower stories


    38. Practically speaking, it means one of the main roadblocks to early retirement – the lack of affordable health care – has finally been cleared away


    39. I know of a few students working behind the scenes to make this happen and have hit some early roadblocks


    40. If you struggle with psychological roadblocks, you are like every other trader who has ever existed, including the successful ones

    41. Roadblocks were placed at both ends of the bridge


    42. We passed through several roadblocks to get there and three different security officials conducted a body search on Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner me after the wires in my jaws set off the metal detectors


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    Synonyms for "roadblock"

    barricade roadblock barrier

    "roadblock" definitions

    any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective


    a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.