Sentence examples for blockade in place from inspiring English sources

After the violence triggered an international outcry, Israel eased restrictions on goods moving into Gaza overland but left the naval blockade in place.

If there were no blockade in place, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Israeli television on Wednesday evening, it would mean "an Iranian port in Gaza".

The days immediately following Eid al-Fitr are considered crucial to the fate of Homs, where a regime blockade in place for much of the past year has recently been tightened and the key opposition district of Khalediyeh fell in mid-July.

The region appears to be now under crackdown, with a communications blockade in place and elderly and children subjected to interrogations.

For Hamas, it is to be free to move people and goods in and out of Gaza while preparing for the next battle, and for Israel, to continue the expansion of settlements, maintain the occupation, and keep the blockade in place.

Its lineup is often quite similar to the lineups you'll find at other marquee music festivals across North America, even though, as any concert promoter in Toronto knows, there are various municipal blockades in place when it comes to booking off-kilter venues or holding electronic music events.

Its lineup is often quite similar to the lineups you'll find at any other marquee music festival across North America, but as any concert promoter in Toronto knows, there are various municipal blockades in place when it comes to booking off-kilter venues, or holding electronic music events.

Officers from the California Highway Patrol arrived soon after the blockade was in place.

"It doesn't seem possible for Israel to reach lasting security as long as the unlawful blockade remains in place".

"Ordinary people in Gaza are struggling to find work and feed their families while the blockade remains in place," said Nishant Pandey, of Oxfam.

It was Israel's unbending determination to force compliance with the blockade put in place in 2007 after the coup d'état by Hamas against the Palestinian Authority that is the origin of this event, just as Operation Cast Lead and its trail of intolerable pain were triggered by the constant firing of rockets into southern Israel.