Sentence examples for a blockade against from inspiring English sources

And it was created by a blockade against oil in oil-producing countries.

In principle, it is unlawful for a state to enforce a blockade against ships that are flying the flag of another state on the high seas.

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.

In late May 1967 Egypt remilitarized the Sinai and declared a blockade against Israeli ships passing through the Strait of Tiran.

People were told that the government was stockpiling food to feed the starving South Korean masses on the blessed day of reunification, or that the United States had instituted a blockade against North Korea.

It has also persuaded some fellow countries in South America to join a blockade against Falklands ships, as the islands prepare to start drilling for oil for the first time in their history.

A similar blockade against a Zim vessel took place in 2010, when pro-Palestinian activists formed picket lines in response to Israel's attack on a flotilla ferrying humanitarian outreach workers to Gaza.

Afterwards, he arrived in Chicago for a fundraiser and announced his support for a tougher blockade against Cuba.

Worse, when Kennedy became a senator from New York in 1965, Johnson imposed a legislative blockade against any initiative bearing the name Kennedy, denying him even the basic technical assistance the administration provided to all other Democratic senators.

That has firmed up a growing belief in Western circles that the prince who fueled a war in Yemen to the point of humanitarian disaster, imposed an intemperate blockade against Qatar, arrested a clutch of Saudi elites for money and took two weeks to come up with a passable explanation for Mr. Khashoggi's fate is not ready for the throne.

In response the pope placed Finland under apostolic protection and invoked a commercial blockade against Russia (1229).