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road and block
`` Yeah, passed your road block as I drove in '', I said, sitting on his polished desk.
But there's no way off the Point except through my road block.
Walking back down Main Street, I said, `` I saw the Harbor's one squad car at the road block, we'll ride out in my car ''.
Look Jed, this is an open and shut case and I have to relieve my men at the road block soon.
Chief Moore said, `` If I don't see you when I return, see you for certain at my road block, Inspector ''.
The road uniform is gray, with " Cleveland " in navy blue block letters trimmed in red is across the front of the jersey, navy blue piping around the sleeves, and the Chief Wahoo logo located on the left sleeve.
The road cap and batting helmet are navy blue with a red block " C " on the front.
The alternate road cap is navy blue with the Chief Wahoo logo on the front ( the block " C " batting helmet is used for all road games ).
Their individual uniforms showed other changes as well ; at home, the blue piping was removed and the block lettered " BREWERS " was changed to a script version similar to the script that spelled their road uniforms, while those outfits had their piping changed from blue-yellow-blue to blue-white yellow.
Anti-tank road barriers also made it possible to block roads at necessary points of passage through the tank obstacles.
For road uniforms, they wear a white jersey with red block numbering and Northwestern stripes on the sleeves, gray pants with blue and red stripes, and solid red socks.
Additionally, the southern edge of the Tiergarten was to be redefined, with a new road planned to slice through the built-up area immediately to the north of Columbushaus ( although Columbushaus itself would remain unscathed ); this road would line up with Voßstraße, one block to the north of Leipziger Platz.
Some patients with the disorder do find a way to overcome this road block, and use facial expression and motor gestures to communicate instead.
Unless the tornado is far away and highly visible, meteorologists advise that drivers park their vehicles far to the side of the road ( so as not to block emergency traffic ), and find a sturdy shelter.
Eastwood and Shriver supported a 2006 lawsuit to block the toll road and urged the California Coastal Commission to reject the project, which it duly did in February 2008.
These units are used to provide climate control and electrical power for the truck's sleeper cab and engine block heater during downtime on the road as mandated by statewide laws for idle reduction.
In 1898, Dr. Charles David Spivak, a noted Russian immigrant, physician and genealogist, established the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society to treat tuberculosis victims on a campus in today's 6400 block of the road.
Since the 1989 – 90 NBA season the Spurs uniform has remained practically the same, with the road uniform now using the team nickname from their logo ; a minor change included the addition of another black ( road ) and white ( home ) trim to the already silver-trimmed block numbers in the 2002 – 03 season.
The road is designed for contraflow travel with railroad-type gates to block most entrance and exit ramps for the normally eastbound lanes.
A Roman deserter, however, made his way to the Macedonian camp and Perseus sent a force of 12, 000 under the command of Milo to block the approach road.
The city of Gretna, Louisiana, the parish seat of Jefferson Parish, made news after its police force participated, along with Crescent City Connection Police and Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies, in a road block on the Crescent City Connection Bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina.

road and desirable
For instance, a site adjoining other publicly owned lands, such as a national forest or a public road, may be desirable, whereas a site next to an industrial plant might not.
The railroads were also a profitable government operation, and road competition was not viewed as desirable.
The publication of Planning Policy Guidance 13 in 1994 ( revised in 2001 ), followed by A New Deal for Transport in 1998 and the white paper Transport Ten Year Plan 2000 again indicated an acceptance that unrestrained growth in road traffic was neither desirable nor feasible.
Ride height control is especially desirable in highway vehicles intended for occasional rough road use, as a means of improving handling and reducing aerodynamic drag by lowering the vehicle when operating on improved high speed roads.
With the urban expansion of the metropolis these holdings were in turn let out on building licences or shorter leases to others by the Rolls family at considerable profit to them, notably the desirable residencial development in the 1750s in the area of what is now Surrey Square and the Paragon which were designed by their Surveyor Michael Searles ( a road near this is named after him ).
High amounts of articulation are desirable for off-road driving, to allow the wheels to maintain ground contact over uneven surfaces, but this can lead to excessive body-roll at high speeds on the road, as well as vague steering.
Most H1s are equipped with a Central Tire Inflation System ( CTIS ), which enables the driver to increase or decrease the tire air pressure at the push of a button, since lower tire pressures are more suited for off road, and higher tire pressures are desirable on-road.
By 1990, however, CHS had emerged from its status as a quirky, largely unknown alternative, on the road to becoming one of the most desirable and high-profile educational options in the area.
Despite high taxation on the import and ownership of motor vehicles ( 191 % on new vehicles, an annual road tax based on engine size, and high pump prices ) and a vehicle quota system known as the Certificate of Entitlement, or perhaps because of it, cars are very desirable and viewed as a status symbol despite Singapore's developed public transport infrastructure.
The most important consequence of the expedition was to persuade the United States government that another effort to build and protect a wagon road from Fort Laramie to the gold fields in Montana was desirable.
According to Weird New Jersey, these rumors have drawn more visitors to the area, to the annoyance of residents, who have in the past gone so far as to smear the pole holding the street sign ( pictured ) at the road ’ s southern end with grease or oil to prevent theft ( Other signs along the road are in vertical type on poles and thus harder to remove and less desirable to display ).
This also clocked up some rally and racing victories ; and pre-empted the hot hatch market as a desirable but affordable performance road car.
A new house was built between 1564 and 1585 to the order of Lord Burghley the most trusted and senior councillor of Elizabeth I, the location desirable in that it lay just off the main road north from London to Ware.

road and local
N11 prefixes such as 211, 311 and 511 are also often disappearing as test numbers as these codes are reassigned to local services such as community information, city hall, road conditions or non-emergency police inquiries.
On both sides of the road, the local settlement, Bonna, grew into a sizeable Roman town.
The buses to be found in countries around the world often reflect the quality of the local road network, with high floor resilient truck based designs prevalent in several less developed countries where buses are subject to tough operating conditions.
In addition, the efficiency of an internal combustion engine can be measured in this way, and some states and local municipalities are using combustion analysis to define and rate the efficiency of vehicles on the road today.
The road network is theoretically divided into four categories ( national roads, priority regional roads, secondary regional roads and local roads ), however, the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre ( UNJLC ) reports that this classification is of little practical use because some roads simply do not exist.
The location of his house in Lower Street is marked with a plaque, although the building itself was demolished ( and elements incorporated into local architect Thomas Lidstone's house on Ridge Hill ) in the 19th century to make way for a new road which was named after Newcomen.
On knocking on one door the lady of the house, presuming him to be a sailor in search of " horizontal refreshment ", directed him to the local brothel several doors down the road.
The lowest level road is tertiary and serves local interests.
The road network in Georgia consists of 1, 474 kilometers of main or international highways that are considered to be in good condition and some 18, 821 kilometers of secondary and local roads that are, generally, in poor condition.
Lacking any source of adequate funds, they revived an 1864 Haitian law, discovered by Butler, requiring peasants to perform labor on local roads in lieu of paying a road tax.
The World Bank, who view the cancellation of those projects will ruin Haiti road Infrastructure Concise into creating, FER ( Fond d ’ Etretient Routiers ) in 2003, this was a way to cut down corruption, get local company involved, and not stopping those works because of political Contestation.
* Medan-Kuala Namu International Airport-Tebing Tinggi, 80 percent of the land needed for the toll road construction is owned by state plantation which it is easy to take over, whether the remaining 20 percent is owned by local residents which it is difficult to take over due to unreasonably high prices.
Much of the original British road system was poorly maintained by thousands of local parishes, but from the 1720s ( and occasionally earlier ) turnpike trusts were set up to charge tolls and maintain some roads.
For those " on the road ", the powers that matter most were petty strongmen who controlled local patches of turfs.
* Levensau High Bridge from 1893 for the Kiel – Flensburg railway and a local road
The local congressman proposes a bill to have the main road in his community resurfaced and paved.
Historically, most roads in New Zealand were funded by local road authorities ( often road boards ) who derived their income from local rates.
Today, all funding for state highways and around 50 % of funding for local roads comes directly from road users through the National Land Transport Fund.
The Germans ' late attempt to blow the road bridge was probably foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge.
The local government authority, charged with a failure to repair a road or bridge, can allege that the responsibility lies with a landowner, at which point the proceedings against them are suspended and those against the landowner they allege to have the responsibility are begun ; but, if the landowner is found not to be responsible, then the matter may be recommenced against the local government authority.

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