Sentence examples for air blockade from inspiring English sources

The ongoing naval and air blockade means very little aid is getting through, exacerbating the needs of the Yemeni people".

Almost one month into the siege of Lebanon, with a land, sea and air blockade by Israel choking off the country, fuel reserves have all but dried up.

But the EU said the sea and air blockade was unjustified and it deplored the "disproportionate" use of force and the loss of civilian life.

The statement was issued in the wake of reports from Leopoldville and Elisabethville that the UN high command had ordered an air blockade of the secessionist province.

Mr. Kennedy's military advisers were urging him to prepare for an invasion, however, once the United States had responded to the detection of the missiles by establishing a naval and air blockade to prevent Soviet ships from reaching Cuba.

The Omani aircraft also flew home to Sana'a rebel negotiators who, because of the air blockade, had been stranded in Muscat since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait in August.

As a result, the ships and their aircraft are now able to participate in a wide range of operations, which can include sea and air blockades, mine laying, and missile strikes on land, air and sea.

It did so in the name of national security, claiming that this action was a response to HAMAS rockets, refusing to acknowledge that the rockets were a response to Israel's two-year-long water-land-air blockade on Gaza that, BBC once reported, was "sucking the life" out of its citizens.

The proposals in this book that have received attention are the authors' advocacy of a "comprehensive air and naval blockade of North Korea" and a more limited blockade against Syria, and the advice that we should promote secession in eastern Saudi Arabia (which is oil rich and Shiite).

In response, Israel bombed Beirut airport, blew up bridges and imposed an air and sea blockade on Lebanon.

Kuwait's allies immediately cut off all aid to Jordan, imposed an air and sea blockade, and condemned King Ḥussein's actions.