Sentence examples for blockade them from inspiring English sources

The army says that it has now withdrawn from the seven Palestinian towns and cities in which it took positions after that killing, but that it is continuing to blockade them.

This was by no means a hopeless enterprise, as their coming was welcome everywhere; their object would be by this move to deprive Athens of her chief source of revenue, and at the same time to saddle her with expense, if she chose to blockade them; and they would probably induce Pissuthnes to join them in the war.

Among the most often cited verses is this one: "Kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and capture them, and blockade them, and watch for them at every lookout... .. (Quran 9 5).

Blockading them, the inhibition was abrogated.

We were starving the Japanese, because we'd blockaded them.

In 1958, the islands were at the center of an international diplomatic crisis, after the Communists began shelling and blockading them and United States vowed to defend them.

Meanwhile he thought it fortunate that, as he had not fallen in with them out at sea, he had not overtaken them anywhere where they would have been forced to encamp, and so give him the trouble of blockading them.

After Kramnik had blockaded them and, with 42 Qb8, was ready to attack them, Kasparov struck a mighty blow on the other wing with 42... e3! Kramnik blocked the critical diagonal of the black queen and queen bishop with 43 f3, but after 43... Qe6 44 Qb5 e2 45 Re1 Qe3 46 Kasparov Kasparov's forces were knocking at the white king's door.

The U.S. might not get along with its neighbors but it hasn't actively blockaded them.

Then they attacked them the moment they started on their journey, stripped p443 them of all their baggage, and, when they defended themselves, blockaded them for a day and a night.

The remains of the Muslim army once again sought refuge in Mineo, where Theodotus blockaded them and soon reduced them to the point of eating their horses and even dogs.