(n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.
(n.) Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
(n.) To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.
Example Sentences:
(1) Palestinians barricaded themselves inside al-Aqsa, throwing stones and fireworks at police entering the compound.
(2) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
(3) Student protesters in Berkeley and Columbia cheered their TV sets as footage from the Paris barricades made the American news in May, while French students took heart from images of the huge anti-war demonstrations now occurring across Europe and America.
(4) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.
(5) It's very reminiscent of a similar death almost a year ago, when a "middle-aged trade unionist" collapsed and died during a protest ( details ) Updated at 1.42pm BST 1.31pm BST 30,000 join Athens protests Reuters reckons that more than 30,000 people took part in today's demonstrations in Athens, and that the trouble began when "a small group of protesters" began throwing marble, bottles and petrol bombs at the ropt police who were "barricading part of the square".
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Standing Rock Sioux siblings Austin, Mani, and PJ, stand in front of a police-guarded barricade.
(7) He says they dragged him about 40 metres towards a fire that was still smouldering on the street, the remains of a protesters' barricade.
(8) The bridge has been barricaded for several weeks, blocking the most direct route to Bismarck, North Dakota, and raising safety concerns among residents of the camp and the reservation.
(9) Alec is tweeting from the scene, where "Locals throw rocks at troops, soldiers fire in air ": Locals are holding Russian flag, Molotov cocktails outside Kramatorsk airfield, which has been taken by Ukrainian forces A few young men in masks just arrived at Kramatorsk airfield, reportedly under control of Ukrainian forces now Locals have set up a barricade outside Kramatorsk airfield.
(10) Within minutes of the verdict, young men were pulling barricades on to Tahrir Square.
(11) I will man the barricades for the BBC, they have been good to me, but they have a tendency when accused of a crime just to hand themselves into the police station.
(12) Activists had planned to use vehicles as barricades to shut down border crossings at 17 locations in four states – Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.
(13) Police barricaded off the car park near it, forcing anyone attending to walk more than 200m down to the reserve.
(14) Demonstrators appeared to storm the short tunnel in reaction to police attempts over the past two days to chip away at barricades on the edges of the sprawling protest zone.
(15) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(16) The demonstrators’ numbers have diminished as many of them returned to work on Monday after a national holiday, but the protest zones remain barricaded, causing traffic jams and angering scores of business owners.
(17) Police erected a barbed wire barricade between the two groups after they faced off and sang rival anthems outside the heavily guarded magistrates court in Ventersdorp, North-West province.
(18) He said: Our activists were sitting there all night calmly, building the barricades.
(19) Police have chipped away at the protest zones in three areas across the city by removing barricades from around the edges.
(20) According to Dieter Rucht of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin: "This is driving people to the barricades who don't normally go out on to the streets."
Bulwark
Definition:
(n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
(n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
(n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
(v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(2) Among ships charged with rescue duties was a British warship, HMS Bulwark, which was travelling towards the area to help a number of migrant boats during the search and rescue mission, the Ministry of Defence said.
(3) We cannot even rely on incompetence as a bulwark for our freedoms.
(4) His intervention angered campaigners who had hoped that a Large Retailer Accountability Act passed by DC's city council would protect unionised shop-workers and act as a bulwark against the spread of low-cost retailers into US inner cities.
(5) Many in the US military harbor skepticism about the firmness of that bulwark.
(6) Eclipsing human rights concerns, the US sees an interest in a strong Yemeni leader as a bulwark against al-Qaida’s local affiliate, known as Aqap, which has attempted to plant bombs on US-bound aircraft.
(7) It recommends an independent supervisory board for HMRC , consisting of stakeholders appointed by the chancellor, to “act as a bulwark against corporate capture and inertia”.
(8) Lieberman is said to have listened as the president's son expounded on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Iran's growing regional influence and how Saddam Hussein – for all his flaws – was a bulwark against Iranian ambitions.
(9) Trump insisted that he is a believer in free trade and declared: “I am not an isolationist.” But it was hard to escape the testy relationship between the bookish woman now seen as a crucial bulwark of the postwar liberal order and the brash businessman who rose to power on a populist tide.
(10) The defence secretary Robert Gates, one of the bulwarks against liberal intervention, is to retire at the end of June.
(11) But China has also long used – and upheld – North Korea as a bulwark against the kind of regional chaos and US military encroachment that Beijing fears would follow regime collapse.
(12) HMS Bulwark has been saving lives in the Mediterranean since the start of May .
(13) While Iran’s behaviour remains unpredictable, it is argued, the Saudis are a key bulwark.
(14) Why a bulwark of civilization should be founded on paradox, may be clarified by examining the role of self-deception in man's evolutionary heritage.
(15) The last thing the British economy needs is the instability and factionalism that those coalitions of grievance of right and left represents”.” With the polls broadly deadlocked between Labour and the Conservatives , Clegg is increasingly confident that his party will come to be seen – especially for moderate Tory voters – as the best bulwark against a Tory leadership that has shown it is incapable of standing up to its own right wing.
(16) Some western countries have softened their stance that Assad must go as part of a peace settlement, but remain uneasy with Putin’s heroic characterisation of Assad as the last bulwark against terrorism.
(17) Germany is expected to favour a more austere, northern European central banker to act as a bulwark against southern European demands for looser monetary policy and more generous terms for eurozone bailout packages.
(18) HMS Bulwark has been operating in waters just north of Libya, intercepting the dangerously overcrowded boats in which thousands are risking their lives to flee war and poverty in Africa .
(19) In his sheer incompetence and inconstancy, Trump has emerged as our best bulwark against Trump.
(20) I believe that the American alliance has been an absolute bulwark of our military and foreign policy and it should remain that way.