Sentence examples for As a blockade from inspiring English sources

In 1861, the Confederates seized the ship as a blockade runner.

The controversial economic embargo of the island (described by the Cuban government as a "blockade") that was imposed in 1962 is, of course, still in place.

Were a new government in Kiev to get tougher with Transdniestria (and thus with Moscow), that could end up as a blockade.

Even the occasional lapse into violence, such as a blockade of the Catalan parliament on June 15th, has done little to dent their popularity.

The letter also said the Beira Patrol "was not categorised as war but as a blockade, and therefore the use of force was not authorised by the United Nations".

General Sherman, an ironclad schooner recommissioned for use in the China trade after service for the Union as a blockade runner in the Civil War, came sailing across the Yellow Sea and entered the mouth of the Taedong River on the west coast of the Korean peninsula.

Madaya was not listed as under a blockade in a year-end UN report on the situation in Syria, even though UN officials had known about the extent of suffering there for months.

As mentioned, a blockade of 5-HT3 receptors may contribute to the modulation of cortical activation via the cholinergic system.

In November last year he chained himself to a digger for 10 hours as part of a blockade against Whitehaven's Maules Creek coal mine.

Dr Gilbert said the agreement had not been upheld and called his ban on entering Gaza as further evidence a blockade on the coastal enclave was no closer.

Pocock was arrested after chaining himself to the digger for 10 hours as part of a blockade at the Maules Creek coalmine in New South Wales's Leard state forest in November.