How To Use Blockade In A Sentence

  • ‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post.
  • Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
  • The river blockaded the spread of the forest fire.
  • The Danish government gave the Association permission to purchase food from Danish sources and to import foodstuffs from neutral countries for reshipment to needy prisoners of war (this permission was highly unusual given the tight blockade that the Allies imposed on Denmark to prevent the trans-shipment of food to Germany). Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • DUSHANBE -- More than 20 journalists protested today outside the Uzbek Embassy in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, to demand an end to what they call Uzbekistan's ongoing economic blockade of Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Spero News
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  • Commenting on the blockade, the SA Chamber of Business in a statement expressed its "grave concern" at what it called the broader economic and business consequences of the action. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Three main types of lumbar sympathetic nerve blockades for pain include the paravertebral approach and spinal and epidural injections of local anesthetics.
  • They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
  • The courts, however, decided that a port so little guarded as Wilmington was at that time could not be legally called blockaded, and the brig was therefore released. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
  • They imposed an economic blockade on the city, forcing people to queue for hours in the heat to enter or leave, and requiring them to show identification in English.
  • Though she was thoroughly aware of his insincerity, she much preferred him in the role of the romantic blockader. Gone with the Wind
  • Litigator London: are you asserting a blockading power can only stop a vessel in territorial waters; and that vessel being stopped has to be flagged by the blockaded entity? The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
  • Do you seriously think that heading for a war zone to run a blockade is the equivalent of riding your car down I-95 with a cooler and a picnic lunch? The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
  • At sea the crusaders maintained a naval blockade, breached by daring blockade-runners or professional swimmers who delivered messages to the besieged garrison. Times, Sunday Times
  • Interestingly, blockade of this receptor not only seems to affect appetite, but also seems to help with cravings for nicotine.
  • Parisian taxi drivers are threatening to mount a blockade to turn the screw on the government.
  • It's time for a policy of containment, which I hereby revise to include a blockade.
  • They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
  • Without a good number of experienced, committed blockaders on the ground even a brief tactical victory would be impossible. The Brawl in St. Paul
  • In exchange for the removal of the weapons the USA pledged to lift the blockade and refrain from invading Cuba. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
  • We must remember this fact because it refutes the argument that one imposes a blockade, embargo, or sanction as a bloodless and humane way of coercing the leaders of a target country.
  • It would have been preferable to discard this possibility by more complete blockade of active sodium transport (with the use of a sodium channel blocker in addition to ouabain, instead of ouabain alone).
  • In May 1949 they lifted the blockade. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • In Kansas with an outgoing Attorney General that hired an arrested and convicted clinic blockader on the state's payroll, and allowed at least one convicted clinic bomber to work in his recent failed re-election bid. Hamilton Spectator - Sniper - The True Story of James Kopp
  • The campaign is aimed to crack down on those who run blockades by sea or hide in containers, and those foreign stowaways who use China as a transfer point.
  • They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
  • Turning Wheels organised two blockades at the Marianhill toll plaza on the N3 near Durban last month to highlight what it called lorry drivers 'exploitation and unfair working conditions. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Besides, as a six-month economic blockade on Gaza demonstrates, the welfare of ordinary Palestinians is always subordinate to Israeli security objectives.
  • It produces an antifibrinolytic effect through the reversible blockade of lysine binding sites on plasminogen molecules.
  • The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength.
  • John Hadley builds his house in 1778 from the timbers of wrecked boats, while the British blockade the port and his wife, Coral, plants turnips and sweet peas.
  • The loss of a comrade in battle or death of a relative as a result of blockade or bombing often causes real bitterness which may be visited upon enemies who could have had no hand in the original act.
  • The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
  • Remember that the revolutionary movement in Eastern Europe, no less than in the American and British navies, is an integral part of the Allied blockade of the Central Empires. Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
  • In contrast to his vigour and emotional buoyancy later in seeing off the so-called fuel blockade, this dark episode was equally to infuriate, exhaust and exasperate the First Minister.
  • Pro - Palestinian activists have sailed into the Gaza Strip defying an Israeli blockade.
  • Since 2007, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) controls the Gaza Strip, Israel to stop arms smuggling on the grounds of the region to implement strict blockade.
  • Israel believes that the fly-in was organized after an aid flotilla that planned to bring hundreds of activists to break the Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza Strip was banned from leaving ports in Greece. Israel on Alert as Pro-Palestinian Activists Plan ‘Fly-In'
  • Finding an agreed way to lift the blockade will not be easy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shipping lines have been avoiding the southern ports in fear of having their vessels blockaded.
  • Outbuilding the South of course meant tightening the "anaconda" system of blockade, in the entangling coils of which the South was caught already. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
  • In exchange for the removal of the weapons the USA pledged to lift the blockade and refrain from invading Cuba. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
  • Within days, blockades at Britain's oil refineries had drained every garage of fuel, threatened the health service, food supplies and industry and brought the government to the brink of declaring a state of emergency.
  • Ricardo himself fled before the place was completely blockaded.
  • Now they are all hostage to negotiations between the regime and rebels on lifting the blockade. Times, Sunday Times
  • The French coast was now blockaded, and to compound the chaos, in August the Convention banned the export of all goods of first necessity and embargoed all neutral ships.
  • This produced angry protest blockades of bin lorries, with local people saying that unless all bins were collected then none would be.
  • In 1941 he helped defuse mines used to blockade Harwich harbour. Times, Sunday Times
  • It blamed a naval blockade by Saudi Arabia and its allies for deepening the humanitarian crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • The blockade meant that lorries attempting to enter or leave the factory were stopped from doing so.
  • Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them.
  • Part of the new Western confidence was related to the obvious success of the counterblockade designed to deprive East German industries of supplies and material that once had been provided by companies in the western sectors of Berlin. Daring Young Men
  • Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads.
  • The most promising ingress appeared to be across the blockade of a robust and much-begilded young man, who was occupying the familiar position of an "end-seat hog," and displaying the full glories of the Hochwaldian dress uniform. The Unspeakable Perk
  • And when they have some kind of fishing grievance, they blockade the Channel ports. The Sun
  • Ten merchant ships were used as armed merchant raiders, or auxiliary cruisers, and a few were employed as blockade runners between Japan and Germany.
  • One would expect the effect of blockade on airways function to be rapid and indeed the risk ceases to be significant after the first year of exposure.
  • Many new anti-nuclear protesters were present, as well as long-term campaigners who were surprised with the success of the blockade.
  • While the government seeks to impose an information blockade by shutting down outlets perceived as supporting the opposition, overseas hackers are busy sabotaging government networks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The blockade has long since become indefensible. Times, Sunday Times
  • It said of the deal: 'It is a far cry from the full lifting of the blockade that is urgently needed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The inhabitants were greatly cheered by the arrival in January 1453 of the Genoese condottieri, who braved the Turkish blockade and got through with his two ships and about 700 men.
  • Even British jurists agreed that no place could be called blockaded unless watched by a force of warships that cut all communication between the blockaded harbor and the outer oceans. Castles of Steel
  • The illegal blockade must be lifted entirely. Times, Sunday Times
  • English ships were summoned to bring reinforcements to the siege and to blockade the port from the sea. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
  • The blockade caused chaos on the A59 as protesters, using D-locks, tripods and chains, closed and bolted the two side entrance gates.
  • They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
  • Pro - Palestinian activists have sailed into the Gaza Strip defying an Israeli blockade.
  • The declaration or establishment of a blockade is prohibited if: (a) it has the sole purpose of starving the civilian population or denying it other objects essential for its survival; or (b) the damage to the civilian population is, or may be expected to be, excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from the blockade. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident
  • The harbour was blockaded, so the ships had to lay off.
  • Having lived for eight years under an economic blockade, many see little sense in giving in now without rolling it back. Times, Sunday Times
  • Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads.
  • Having lived for eight years under an economic blockade, many see little sense in giving in now without rolling it back. Times, Sunday Times
  • The agreement, which halted hostilities along the demarcation line between two Koreas until a peaceful settlement is achieved, bans naval blockades by the warring parties.
  • Time was ineffably precious -- there was every reason to suspect Yankee guile, which is said to be nowhere more fertilely exhibited than in their conduct of the blockade; but it was deemed possible, after careful scrutiny, that the vessel might be on fire. Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
  • There is still some hope that the economic blockade will work and make military intervention unnecessary.
  • Finding an agreed way to lift the blockade will not be easy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tension was also reflected in West Beirut, where support for the blockade began to diminish.
  • However, several significant medical contraindications to beta blockade are present.
  • Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary.
  • The British then imposed a blockade which restricted trade with France and the USA and prevented the movement of French warships at Martinique, and of French gold shipped there.
  • Tbilisi's airport was reopened, putting an end to the transportation blockade of the city.
  • The students from the youth activist group blockaded an intersection just outside the central plaza.
  • The blockade has been lifted, but not before seriously weakening hundreds of thousands of people. Christianity Today
  • The blockade was removed and operations continued uninterrupted.
  • That was what made the Allied counterblockade so effective— and also created secret east-west trade throughout the airlift, a big-time black market. Daring Young Men
  • How long are people prepared to be exposed to sufferings and privations caused by the blockade?
  • A brutal trade blockade was imposed. Times, Sunday Times
  • So with warships he and his allies established what he called a pacific blockade on Venezuelan ports. A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge
  • They ran a blockade and got to the border.
  • We have been dispatched here to negotiate the present blockade and thereby relieve the present turmoil and accelerate the plans of the trade union congress of the deltoid outer nebobbian haemorrhoid rim," notes Kinobi in one scene. BBC News - Home
  • The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
  • He launched a scathing attack on both the EU and the Department of Marine in advance of tomorrow's blockade of fishing ports.
  • Workers at three of France's 12 refineries voted Monday to return to work, though their supplies of crude oil remain disrupted by port blockades. French Pension Conflict Enters New Phase
  • A brutal trade blockade was imposed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Porsena being repulsed in his first attempt, having changed his plans from a siege to a blockade, after he had placed a garrison in The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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  • The blockade has been lifted, but not before seriously weakening hundreds of thousands of people. Christianity Today
  • Intravenous beta blockade also has a place in acute care in selected patients.
  • It looks to me as if some pusher may be cracking the blockade by using SCRC people as caddies. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
  • For the dozenth time, maritime law recognizes the right of a belligerent operating a blockade to seize blockade runners in international waters. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident
  • The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
  • An aged, wooden blockade obstructed the pebbled road, so they had to park Raven's Ferrari in front of it and continue the travel on foot.
  • A declaration of a blockade which extends to the high seas is a potential threat to international peace and security. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
  • The Confederates might have opted to purchase and import naval supplies such as machinery and iron plating before the war and its attendant blockade.
  • Two rams and another iron warship were to form the nucleus of a Confederate fleet designed to sweep away the blockaders and challenge northern supremacy in American waters.
  • In 1941 he helped defuse mines used to blockade Harwich harbour. Times, Sunday Times
  • He demanded their removal and imposed a naval blockade on the delivery of weapons to Cuba.
  • It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops. David Harris: Why History Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
  • Although some iron, steel, boilerplate, and machinery was smuggled through the blockade, the flow was meager and uncertain.
  • James states that she was "blockaded" in port by the _Tenedos_, during part of 1814; but was too much awed by the fate of the The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
  • In Kiev, protesters standing five deep and linking arms blockaded the cabinet building.
  • Each dhow as she was cleared had to make for the shore and dismast or beach so that she could not steal out at night and add to the difficulties of the blockade. Pan-Islam
  • It said of the deal: 'It is a far cry from the full lifting of the blockade that is urgently needed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Government had stipulated to pay for indemnifying our citizens for property illegally captured in the blockade of Terceira. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • There's been talk of a retaliatory blockade to prevent supplies getting through.
  • As you can hear from this home video, the police arrived and tried to reason with the blockaders.
  • It was quite some time before they break through the enemy's blockade.
  • On blockade duty individual captains could alter the watch routine by splitting the period from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. into two 2-hour watch segments called dogwatches.
  • The blockade has long since become indefensible. Times, Sunday Times
  • In my view, establishing what he called a quarantine, what the world thought of as a blockade, and preventing if you will the Soviet Union from placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, that was certainly self-defense, it was certainly anticipatory self - defense, it was certainly preventative, and we were very close to a crisis of historic proportions. CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2002
  • There is growing concern from the international community about the four-day Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, after the territory's only power station shut down for lack of fuel.
  • The second mechanism of TCA cardiotoxicity involves the blockade of norepinephrine uptake at the adrenergic presynaptic endings.
  • In July the miners achieved a near total blockade of Shimonoseki, Honshu, and Kyushu, plus some Korean ports. Whirlwind
  • It blamed a naval blockade by Saudi Arabia and its allies for deepening the humanitarian crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • The protesters displayed antiwar banners and chanted antiwar slogans in front of policemen carrying rifles and a concrete blockade installed in street of the embassy compound.
  • The law enforcement officers quickly resealed the blockade.
  • On the other hand, the blockade enforcers have the right to seize by force (including sinking, should the ship prove recalcitrant — in practice most captains had the decency and valor to surrender to a militarily superior force instead of martyring themselves) any ship violating the blockade. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
  • It is more likely that the "interrelatedness" of this event to the pending dispute between Turkey and Israel over the recent UN Report upholding the legality of Israel's efforts to stop the Mavi Marmara from breaking Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, and its refusal to apologize for the killing of several Turkish nationals. Clarence B. Jones: Domestic Foreign Policy Storm Clouds -- The Unresolved Israel Palestine Dispute
  • Israel would presumably lift its naval blockade.
  • It argued that, in the absence of the pricing rules, there would be civil disturbances, blockades, and violence.
  • The one exception to the blockade against animal fat is fish oil.
  • What would stop Israel from setting up an investigation into complicty of the Turkish government in a premeditated armed attack on IDF commandoes by armed mercenaries and militants linked to known terrorist groups, who set sail from a Turkish port with the goal of breaking an Israeli blockade, and chanting “Khyber, khyber, beware O Jews”, and “Go back to Auschwitz” and various slogans glorifying jihad and martyrdom? The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
  • In the southern state of Tabasco, farmers blockaded 60 oil wells in February to demand compensation from Pemex.
  • While the government seeks to impose an information blockade by shutting down outlets perceived as supporting the opposition, overseas hackers are busy sabotaging government networks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sea blockade will remain. The Sun
  • An increasingly effective Union blockade reduced the availability of ships' machinery and even such items as nails and spikes.
  • The blockade prevented about three to four ships, including tankers, from using the shipping lane, which is one of the busiest in the country.
  • An averment that the blockade was lawful is likely to get short shrift in any Court potentially having jurisdiction other than in Israel. The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
  • In many cases lakes are due to more than one cause, as where preglacial valleys have both been basined by the ice and blockaded by its moraines. The Elements of Geology
  • In May 1949 they lifted the blockade. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
  • Greenwald seems to be wrong about enforcing blockades in international waters, but if “piracy is by definition undertaken by non-state actors,” what are we to make of the infamous Barbary pirates, and the tribute payments made to and wars fought with the Barbary States? The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
  • Around the country train services were hit as workers blockaded railway lines.
  • Special attention should be paid to the problem of composition of the formations engaged in blockades.
  • Their ability to cut through the massive traffic jams the blockade caused also boosted sales.
  • The group, which has already staged road blockades on major routes, has not ruled out deploying tactics such as chaining themselves to railings and lying on roads.
  • The most obvious move would be to set up some kind of blockade or embargo. METAPLANETARY
  • The mischief done by privateering, which the great Powers of Europe have agreed to abolish, is as nothing compared with the wholesale suffering which the blockade now being enforced by the Belligerent Rights
  • These points became more and more worthy of note as the war went on, and the North, after its first clumsy struggles, went to work with more earnestness, made a real blockade, and by enormous levies from a worthless population which it was only too glad to expend, measured its military purse, so to speak, against that of the South, but to a large extent gave counters for sovereigns. London: Saturday, December 26, 1863
  • Upon his return to Medina the Thakishites, having been blockaded in the Taif by the Mussulman tribes, sent deputies offering to embrace Islamism, upon condition of being allowed to retain a little longer an idol to which their people were bigotedly attached. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
  • The blockade of these receptors can therefore facilitate dopaminergic transmission by stimulating dopamine release and by potentiating the effects of dopamine receptor stimulation.
  • (Gaza is blockaded which is even worse than being occupied by israel). WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
  • While the government seeks to impose an information blockade by shutting down outlets perceived as supporting the opposition, overseas hackers are busy sabotaging government networks. Times, Sunday Times
  • A soldier enforcing a military blockade of an enemy in wartime against a blockade runner is not committing acrime. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Israeli Incompetence
  • A brutal trade blockade was imposed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Estonian port of Tallinn was blockaded for a time by Soviet warships.
  • Both chronic VEGFR blockade and xenogeneic EC immunization in rats cause emphysema in rats without apparent damage to other organs.
  • Road blockades, and the use of police and military force against the blockaders, could resume if a permanent agreement is not reached.
  • Patients taking beta-adrenergic blockers present a special challenge because beta blockade may limit the effectiveness of epinephrine.
  • A decade of benign neglect of energy policies has been abruptly spotlighted in the blockaded streets of London, Brussels and Paris.
  • This definition can cover legitimate forms of protest, including strikes, pickets, blockades and mass demonstrations.
  • It was quite some time before they break through the enemy's blockade.
  • An economic blockade was imposed on landlocked Nepal, using the pretext that negotiations over the trade treaty between the two countries had reached deadlock. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
  • Superiority in coastal areas or maritime blockade should be seen as prerequisites of success in an operation.
  • These results suggest that the spasmolytic and vasodilator effects of Mc. Cr root extract are mediated possibly through blockade of voltage-dependent calcium channels and release of intracellular calcium, which may explain the medicinal use of Morinda citrifolia in diarrhea and hypertension. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Last Tuesday they blockaded the Forth Road Bridge with tractors and horseboxes and last Friday they brought traffic to a virtual standstill on the M74, the A1 and A68 roads on the border.
  • As punishment, the US blockades the state, does not allow it's ships to leave port, air travel is prohibited, andany vehicular traffic into other states, if any, must pass through stringent military checkpoints. Gaza and Tijuana; What if Rocket Bombs Were Launched from Mexico Into California
  • Finding an agreed way to lift the blockade will not be easy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Blockades and go-slows aimed at pressurising the Government into cutting fuel duties took place across the country in 2000, sparking panic buying and shortages at filling stations.
  • Bullu Raj/Associated Press Two rival ethnic groups forced a four-month blockade of major national highways connecting the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur to the rest of the country. Indian Politics in 2011
  • The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
  • Further, serotonin blockade prevents dopamine from increasing prolactin levels thereby relieving patients of the adverse effects of galactorrhea, amenorrhea, and gynecomastia.
  • An economic blockade was imposed on landlocked Nepal, using the pretext that negotiations over the trade treaty between the two countries had reached deadlock. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
  • The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade.
  • It is the irreversible blockade of platelet thromboxane synthesis that results in the inhibition of platelet aggregation. Aspirin: effects, poisoning
  • Nine steel bollards, usually used to support the hulls of ships, blockade the yard's entrance.
  • On September 5, truckers in France mounted nationwide blockades in protest against high diesel fuel prices.
  • Throughout 1940 and 1941 the USA tightened an economic blockade of Japan which threatened to cut off most Japanese oil supplies.
  • Prime minister David Cameron was a little nearer the mark when he called the blockaded Gaza Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • In 1941 he helped defuse mines used to blockade Harwich harbour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even the coastal trades were by a lack of vessels, by blockades by wartime freight rates.
  • In exchange for the removal of the weapons the USA pledged to lift the blockade and refrain from invading Cuba. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
  • “The Federal blockaders are boxing in a lot of our shipping,” said Calvin. Fateful Journeys
  • Moreover it began to free captured troops on July 5 and to lift blockades.
  • In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded.
  • Severe economic crisis, a blockade by US imperialism and the flight of most of China's capitalists to Taiwan and Hong Kong forced the CCP to nationalise most industries.
  • Ironically, the model of the Devastator, Darth Vader's ship, was smaller than the Rebel blockade runner it was chasing.
  • Now they are all hostage to negotiations between the regime and rebels on lifting the blockade. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the submarine, the longstanding naval strategy of close blockades of enemy ports had to be abandoned.
  • Because the problem with dirt is that the media had imposed virtually an iron blockade when it came to the really personal stuff.
  • ` ` We shall hardly, '' said he one morning to Waverley, when they had been viewing the Castle, --- ` ` we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbine, paretaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh The Waverley
  • Some left after only a fortnight and, as time went by, it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade.
  • The President of the United States on his sole decision deploys troops anywhere in the world, blockades and embargoes foreign countries, imposes trade tariffs, and engages in election cycle credit inflation.
  • About 500 workers imposed a blockade on the factory on October 14 after being abruptly informed that the plant was closed and the workforce sacked.
  • Fuxe, Demonstration of extraneuronal 5-hydroxytryptamine accumulation in brain following membrane-pump blockade by chlorimipramine, Brain Research 12 1969: 456-60. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
  • At the end of procedures, the neuromuscular blockade was reversed, if necessary, with neostigmine, 0.03 mg/kg, and atropine, 0.015 mg/kg.
  • Now they are all hostage to negotiations between the regime and rebels on lifting the blockade. Times, Sunday Times
  • English ships were summoned to bring reinforcements to the siege and to blockade the port from the sea. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
  • Even so, the airlift had defeated General Winter—and more and more industries in East Berlin and East Germany were shutting down because of a lack of supplies and materials kept out by the Allied counterblockade. Daring Young Men

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