1.   The talks were aimed at reaching an agreement that could have prevented the blockade.

2.   While the Energy Department had requested a temporary restraining order to prevent more blockades, Currie made the injunction permanent.

3.   He did not say what steps the government would take to prevent such blockades.

4.   In Kragujevac, reservists had fistfights with police trying to prevent their blockade.

5.   In Kragujevac, the reservists skirmished with police trying to prevent their blockade.

6.   Traffic policemen did not prevent the blockade but moved in to take several license plates off the parked vehicles.

7.   The law also allows abortion providers and patients to seek injunctions in federal courts to prevent clinic blockades and to sue for damages if blockades or attacks take place.