1.   Friends from a nearby ranch avoided roadblocks by taking a dirt back road and joined him for dinner.

2.   Most, including some of the few foreign reporters, had to walk through the hills into the village to avoid police roadblocks.

3.   On occasion, the company has hired tractors to carry crates of Coke through fields, thus avoiding roadblocks.

4.   Russian riot police patrolled the southern road on which rebels have come and gone bringing ammunition and weapons, but Chechen fighters can still avoid that roadblock.

5.   To avoid these roadblocks, choose walls that do not have outlets or switches.

6.   A major problem is getting truck drivers first to undertake the journey and then to avoid roadblocks, McAskie said.

7.   Arafat himself travels between Gaza and the West Bank by helicopter, avoiding any roadblocks.

8.   Arafat himself travels between Gaza and the West Bank by helicopter, avoiding roadblocks.

9.   Monsanto Co. and Aventis CropScience have settled two lawsuits against each other and agreed to avoid patent roadblocks to the development of genetically improved cotton varieties.

10.   The refugees were traveling by sea to avoid roadblocks set up by the warring factions, he said.