Sentence examples for blockade off from inspiring English sources
During the Cuban missile crisis, he headed a section of the Office of Naval Intelligence, deploying ships in the blockade off Cuba.
On his way out the door, Hébert banned the export of cotton – already made nearly impossible by the Union blockade off the coast – except by authorized agents of the Confederacy.
As the Simon's Town Museum, the South African Navy Museum and the Heritage Museum reveal, the town hosted a prison camp in the Second Anglo-Boer War between 1899 and1902, saw forced removals of Coloured people under apartheid in 1967 and even played a part in the American Civil War when a Confederate cruiser, the CSS Alabama, visited in 1863, evading the Yankee blockade off Cape Point.
Gordon arrived off Port Napoleon on 17 September, hoping to find Rowley maintaining the blockade off the port in Boadicea.
A British assault force landed on the island on 7 February, after which Nelson moved to intensify the blockade off Bastia.
Aldenham was a part of an allied blockade off Cap Bon in May 1943 and escorted landing craft during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July and the Salerno landings in September that year.
Almost blockading off the upper gallery, she allows the struggles of paint and installation to remain on the walls, creating a claustrophobic, cave-like installation.
Last week 50 masked gunmen belonging to the preventive security forces blockaded off the main street between northern and southern Gaza demanding jobs and wages, as they have become accustomed to doing over the past few years (though the mass media would have us assume otherwise, citing the incident as "the first sign" of frustration with the new government).
But the plan rejects calls by the U.N. to lift an on-off blockade of Hodeidah port, a vital lifeline for civilians in the rebel-held north: it proposes reducing the overall flow of cargo into the city and stepping up imports into coalition-controlled areas.
The German and Turkish blockade choked off most imports.
A Taliban blockade cut off food supplies and devastated villages in central Afghanistan.
