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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Police set up roadblocks circling Harare and prevented thousands of people from gathering in the city centre.
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Police did nothing to stop them from burning dozens of homes and setting up roadblocks to prevent the Madurese escaping.
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Literacy leaders might attempt to set up pedagogic roadblocks both ways on the highway of commercial publication.
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Police nationwide will be setting up roadblocks to stop the killers transporting van loads of explosives at will.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Inappropriate clothing can be a roadblock to promotion.
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Within an hour of the shootings, police set up ten roadblocks around Las Cruces.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the people running this particular roadblock were teen-age guerrillas robbing passers-by and stealing cars.
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At a roadblock , police opened fire on the peasants, killing 17 of them.
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But Louis had posted the roadblock to stop anyone with authority returning to Belpan City.
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In large organizations, the number of roadblocks and low points can seem infinite, particularly when something new is being tried.
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Near Kaesong and Panmunjom, we passed roadblocks set up by the military.
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Police set up roadblocks circling Harare and prevented thousands of people from gathering in the city centre.
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Ten yards to go and he heard the driver of the Discovery accelerate away from the roadblock .