Sentence examples for a blockade to from inspiring English sources

Sally Meredith joined a blockade to stop a logging road in 1990.

It is no different than if the Arab world joined in a blockade to starve Israelis to force an end to the 43-year-old occupation.

Hunter accused Gurowski of libeling him by claiming that the clerk had prematurely revealed plans for a blockade to the British ambassador and committing other diplomatic indiscretions.

Liberian soldiers have now set up a blockade to stop people from the affected western regions entering the capital of Monrovia, while Sierra Leone has imposed a complete blockade of eastern areas suffering from Ebola.

In a 2008 talk at the Yale School of Management, Gary T. DiCamillo, a former chief executive at Polaroid, said one reason that the company went out of business was that the revenue it was reaping from film sales acted like a blockade to any experimentation with new business models.

Kennedy decided to impose a blockade, to stop further Soviet missiles from arriving, and a few days' stalemate followed, with alarms on both sides, until finally a deal was done: no Russian rockets on Cuba, American rockets to be withdrawn from Turkey.

Landowners in the Sussex Downs National Park are mounting a "legal blockade" to block a potential fracking site.

Indigenous protesters in the Bolivian Amazon have broken through a police blockade to continue a long-distance march on the main city, La Paz.

In this approach, a telomerase-specific vector expressing Cre recombinase directs excisive recombination on a second vector, removing a transcriptional blockade to CMV-dependent luciferase expression.

The Gaza Strip had been subject to a blockade prior to Israel's attack on December 27 for almost 18 months.

"Its savvy traders had managed to avoid a barrage of NATO bombs and a naval blockade to send dozens of tankers to rebel-held ports," The Telegraph reported.