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 roadblock ['rәudblɒk]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    roadblock
    [ noun ]
    1. any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

    2. <noun.cognition>
      intolerance is a barrier to understanding
    3. a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

    4. <noun.artifact>


    1. The bill still has to go through three other committees _ including one where the erection of a formidable roadblock is anticipated later this month _ before a final vote by the full House.
    2. Some of those killed Wednesday died when police tried to dismantle a roadblock by Mohajir members, a government spokesman said.
    3. Some four hours after the shooting, about 60 cars were lined up outside Nablus and an equal number were queued inside the city waiting to pass a roadblock manned by three jeeploads of troops.
    4. Another legal roadblock to Beazer exists in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, where Judge Maurice B. Cohill halted the BNS bid because of his concerns over financing.
    5. We were kept in custody at the military roadblock all night, though it was difficult to sleep.
    6. The soldier fled in a car with the hostages and was later stopped by a police roadblock, where he was killed in an exchange of gunfire, Stephan said.
    7. United Auto Workers and Caterpillar Inc. negotiators met Monday for extended contract talks amid speculation that the two sides had agreed at least in principle on an acceptable job-security package, considered a major roadblock.
    8. But when someone like Kearns wants to bring an invention to market, the patent system is a roadblock because it allows for a legal morass like the one Kearns found himself in.
    9. Another American died two weeks ago from a leg wound after being shot by Liberian troops at a roadblock in Monrovia.
    10. An election-year bill requiring random drug and alcohol testing for railroad workers seems to be headed for a roadblock in the Senate, even though it has breezed through the House.
    11. Reporters bound for Hebron were turned back at an army roadblock near Arrub, a West Bank refugee camp Arrub 12 miles south of Jerusalem.
    12. There is an additional roadblock left over from the Cold War: Defense contractors generally don't want to hire scientists from the former Soviet Union because doing so could violate security regulations that come along with government contracts.
    13. However, the lawsuit filed against A&P may prove a significant roadblock.
    14. A roadblock on Interstate 10 near Orange, Texas, was closed Sunday because of the lack of activity.
    15. At about noon, the protesters again formed a roadblock on another road, stopping the state car about three miles short of Allen's farm, said Schlegel.
    16. Campeau's proposal, which was expected, still faces a major roadblock in Federated's "poison pill" takeover defense.
    17. But he hit a roadblock on Popeye and Olive Oyl, who declined the project on orders from their copyright owners, King Features.
    18. Editor Jackson once hid his notes in the van's hubcaps to get them through a police roadblock.
    19. The army fired in the air to disperse the stone-throwers, then dismantled the roadblock.
    20. At a roadblock on the outskirts of the airport other soldiers, carrying loaded weapons, said they were only being paid $14 a month and that they had to buy their uniforms and shoes.
    21. This removed a major roadblock to completing the treaty to reduce long-range missiles by 30 percent to 50 percent in time for Bush and Gorbachev to sign at their summit in Washington.
    22. Macmillan's merger pact with Kohlberg Kravis ran into a new roadblock as Maxwell Communication won the right to appeal the accord.
    23. In 1980, he was charged with murder and terrorism in connection with the slaying of two whites at a roadblock erected by black youths near Cape Town.
    24. If you were one of those New Yorkers trapped in Seventh Avenue traffic somewhere between 33rd and Central Park on a certain day last June, you may as well know what the roadblock was you were cursing.
    25. Both executives explained that the advance may help overcome a major roadblock to human monoclonal antibodies.
    26. Only a half hour before yesterday's hearing was convened, the biggest roadblock to the plan was dissolved in last-minute negotiations.
    27. A professional clown won't have to pay through the nose for leaving on a comic disguise at a recent sheriff's roadblock.
    28. Cooper Cos., strapped for cash and facing a roadblock in its efforts to sell a unit, said it intends to seek a buyer for the company.
    29. The road leading to July Manifesto, where the leaders of the Silesian mine strikes set up headquarters, was sealed off by an army roadblock.
    30. After she cleaned up her newly born calf, O'Donnell set up a roadblock so oncoming cars wouldn't hit it.
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