Sentence examples for blockade on all from inspiring English sources

It was dangerously foolish to impose a blockade on all imports to Iraq or to commit ourselves to military action should diplomatic efforts fail.

Isis holds every other entry and exit point into Rojava, so the two million Kurds there are victims of a blockade on all sides which still claims its victims.

If Nicaragua did not agree to these conditions we would impose a blockade on all military equipment and advisers seeking entry to the country, and we would continue our aid to the contras.

He expanded his war powers, and imposed a blockade on all the Confederate shipping ports, disbursed funds before appropriation by Congress, and after suspending habeas corpus, arrested and imprisoned thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers.

The Gaza Strip is blockaded on all sides, its population of 1.5 million imprisoned in a cramped, collapsing concrete maze the size of the Isle of Wight.

The capture of the French colony on Martinique by the British in 1809 marked a critical point for the French force on Guadeloupe; blockaded on all sides by the naval forces of the British, the French civilians and soldiers were reduced to near starvation.

We were dying slowly before the war, because of the tough embargo imposed on Gaza and the blockade of all the crossings.

Food has started to shrink in Adhamiya stores because of the blockade imposed on all the entrances of the district that has been in place for a week now.

Israel and Egypt's continued blockade on practically all supplies going into the coastal strip, and a drying up of funds from Hamas sponsors in Iran and Qatar, mean that Gaza, home to 1.8 million Palestinians, is verging on economic collapse.

Zapatero said his foreign minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, would argue at the meeting that the EU should stand up for the end of the blockade on Gaza and extend all its political and diplomatic capacity to reach that goal.

Widespread and frequent Israeli bombardments of Gaza, three full-scale wars with its rulers, Hamas, and a punishing decade-long blockade on the territory have all failed to stop the violence.