Sentence examples for blockade it from inspiring English sources

Having surrounded the base the women began to blockade it.

Without a full lifting of the blockade it will continue on a downward spiral".

This led the League to suspend a strike and blockade it had staged in protest at the electoral arrangements.

On June 6th Israel began slightly to relax the draconian blockade it had imposed on the territories after the bombing.

The UN said that, despite this "ad hoc" easing of the blockade, it found "no significant improvement in the quantity and scope of goods allowed into Gaza".

By afternoon, dump trucks were depositing rock into the river in a race to blockade it before an impending rainstorm washed more ash downstream.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have arrived to broker a peace process between the inoffensive little planet of Naboo, and the ruthlessly commercial Trade Federation, which is blockading it and preparing to wage war on Naboo for its mercantile ends.

Twenty protesters have targeted the headquarters of energy company Cuadrilla by blockading it with their bodies.

The action involves the death of a man resembling Goytisolo who visits Sarajevo when Serbs blockaded it between 1992 and 1996, and killed more than 10,000 people.

Pursued by Nelson and not daring to attack him, it turned back toward Europe and took refuge in Cádiz in July 1805; there the British blockaded it.

The Spanish have never accepted the loss of Gibraltar, besieging it on three occasions and most recently blockading it from 1969 to 1985.