Sentence examples for blockade effort from inspiring English sources

Elba remained in the region for the remainder of the war, assisting in the blockade effort.

Because it means Republicans will continue to blockade efforts to resolve the growing income inequality that is rupturing the economy and the social cohesion of this nation.  .

The right-to-carry movement, by unbridling the presence of firearms in American life and erecting a political blockade against efforts to qualify it, has transformed the culture and business of guns.

But Tibetans say that the government killed more than 140 people as it tried to suppress uprisings in Tibet and neighboring regions, and that military blockades and efforts to prevent journalists from traveling in those areas have made it impossible to know what really happened.

Ranchers who seek grazing permits and leases see the federal government as blockading their efforts to make a living.

As the Flood spread across Halo and infect High Charity in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, the Covenant form a blockade in an effort to prevent the parasite from leaving its prison.

Hyperkalaemia continues to be a major hazard of mineralocorticoid receptor blockade in an effort to retard the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Isolated from Latin America in the 1960s by the US blockade, Castro made efforts to assist revolutionaries who sought to turn the Andes into a new Sierra Maestra.

Ms. Diggs confirms her character's role as an outsider, blockaded in every effort as she wages her one-woman war.

The Defense Ministers, members of NATO's nuclear planning group, met at a ski resort here to chart the future of the alliance, which was founded 41 years ago, after the Communist takeover of Eastern Europe and the unsuccessful Soviet effort to blockade West Berlin.

Clark added that the "tragic status quo" would only be altered if the root causes of the conflict were addressed and the blockade "which has crippled efforts for human development and economic opportunity since 2007" lifted.