Sentence examples for before the blockade from inspiring English sources

Inside the hotel, the contrast with what it looked like before the blockade was striking.

Even before the blockade, those who ship supplies could face massive delays and mandatory searches by coalition warships.

Imports are 80% down on the period before the blockade, and most of what does enter Gaza is from a narrow range of food and hygiene items.

The night before the blockade, the council approved a motion by Mr. Brizzi to set up the blockade, even though the borough attorney said that blocking buses was illegal.

At the start of the war, Confederate naval cannons consisted of a mix of older and obsolete American guns, and a sprinkling of Armstrong, Blakeley and Whitworth guns from Britain that had made it in before the blockade slowed imports.

In the second half of last year, about 19,000 people a month crossed the Rafah border both ways, slightly less than half the rate before the blockade, according to human rights groups.

Representatives of the Taliban militia, which wants a government of Islamic scholars in place before the blockades are lifted, accused United Nations mediators of favoring its enemies.

Below are two maps that recreate Qatar Airways flight paths before and after the blockade.

He joined her at Portsmouth, where he received orders to sail to Malta and take command of a squadron there before joining the blockade of Toulon.

At some point during the action, before the cops had arrived with pepper spray, before members of the Blockade ran out into the road to prevent the cherry picker from removing their friends from the trees that they were sitting in, I walked across the road away from the commotion, several hundred yards from the pipeline.

At City Hall yesterday, Mr. Dinkins said he wanted Commissioner Shepard to give him a full report on what happened at Rikers both before and after the blockade ended.