11.   Meanwhile, its eastward escape route has been blocked by the British high.

12.   Not, at least, if his seat blocks fire escape routes on the trading floor at the NYSE building on Wall Street.

13.   Police, responding to the shooting, had already arrived at the scene, but their unattended vehicles were blocking routes to the accident site.

14.   She heard on the radio that fighting had blocked the route to the kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley where she grew up and her mother still lived.

15.   The Bosnian Serbs have also threatened to block routes through Serbian suburbs that connect Sarajevo to the rest of the country.

16.   Tiffeny Milbrett ambled into the Upper East Side restaurant Rain last Friday night and surveyed the crush of swells blocking her route.

17.   When the Bosnian Serbs overran the Srebrenica enclave, Dutch peacekeepers tried to block the route into the town of Srebrenica.

18.   While MiG jets dropped bombs, two helicopter gunships blocked escape routes.

19.   Yugoslav army troops have been laying mines, trying to block attack routes from Skopje and Kumanov in Macedonia.

20.   Pakistan called both allegations nonsense and said it had deployed more troops on its border near Tora Bora and patrolled with helicopter gunships to block escape routes.