Sentence examples for block the port from inspiring English sources
"I could take a decision to block the port.
Philippe Mignonet told the BBC: "We will block the port – as simple as that.
"We will block the tunnel, we will block the port," the Sunday Times quoted Vercoutre as saying.
The army team steered the ferry to the military port of Toulon, since strikers continued to block the port at Marseille.
"We will not allow an ounce of raw material to reach our shores," Mr. Wong said, adding that Himpunan Hijau would recruit "thousands of people" to block the port 24 hours a day when the raw material arrived.
The deputy mayor, Philippe Mignonet this week called for all border controls to moved back to the other side of the Channel, threatening to "block the port" unless action is taken.
Fishermen and other residents were blocking the port with boats taken from the migrants, the police said.
The government made plans on Monday to move thousands of illegal Tunisian migrants off the island of Lampedusa to other parts of Italy after furious residents blocked the port to protest the crisis.
The Ministry of Defense failed on Friday to get an injunction stopping Greenpeace from blocking the port but did obtain a limited ruling preventing the activists from boarding or touching ships chartered to carry military supplies.
