Sentence examples for blockade around from inspiring English sources

The acquisition could significantly enhance China's ability to establish a blockade around Taiwan, the report contends.

Instead, they are pursuing a combination of negotiations and a tightening blockade around the mosque.

"And then, the third day into the run of the Bolshoi Ballet, Kennedy put the blockade around Cuba," he said.

After Palestinian gunmen fired on a Jewish enclave in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, Israel once more tightened its blockade around the divided city.

Meanwhile, the bizarre blockade around the rural home of the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng has become a distracting embarrassment, China's most vivid failure of rule of law.

On Oct. 25, after the United States Navy imposed a blockade around Cuba, Malin recorded Khrushchev's decision to back down to avoid a nuclear war.

Star Wars Functional working knowledge of Trade Federation negotiations viz geographical blockades around the planet Naboo.

Police have cleared all 15 blockades around the country, leaving only one depot still shut by a strike.

Israel says it cannot risk withdrawing all its troops and removing any more restrictions on Palestinian movement, like its blockades around West Bank towns.

Hours after news broke on Tuesday night that law enforcement officials had fatally shot militiaman LaVoy Finicum, an Arizona rancher, and arrested leader Ammon Bundy and seven others, police began setting up blockades around the Malheur national wildlife refuge.

Israel declared an end today to what it called the first stage of its West Bank offensive, withdrawing its forces from the center of Nablus and from parts of Ramallah while establishing blockades around both cities.