Sentence examples for blockade called from inspiring English sources

Manipur: A three-day "total blockade" called by Naga leaders has begun in parts of Manipur, despite an appeal by Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Chief Minister Okram Ibobi to suspend the agitation, reports the Assam Tribune.

In all, about 60 people have died in a month-long transport blockade called by the main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP .The BNP's leader, Khaleda Zia, who has twice served as prime minister, has been confined to a party office in Dhaka, while the blockade of roads, railways and waterways has paralysed the country.

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Israel to lift the Gaza blockade, calling the raid "completely unacceptable".

Firstly, the embargo or blockade, call it what you will, which has had drastic social and economic consequences for Cuba over the last 40 years, and which the international community has condemned at the United Nations year after year.

The blockades, called narcobloqueos by the Mexican news media, resulted in traffic chaos, with the trucks parked horizontally across highways and vehicles jammed up behind them.

In addition to the crippling blockade, she called a three-day national strike from February 1st.

The blockade was called off last weekend, but it will be weeks before supply levels return to normal.

These medications were withheld prebiopsy in order to exclude the presence of normoalbuminuria due to RAS blockade, so called "pseudonormoalbuminuria".

The United Nations report on the deaths of eight Turks and an American of Turkish origin on a flotilla seeking to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza called Israel's blockade legitimate.

A few of the blockade groups have called for an overthrow of the government; others want the officials to stand up to foreign financial interests and stop repayments.

In a conflict between Taiwan a China, this means a blockade, which Flavel called "an act of war that doesn't involve shooting".