Sentence examples for blockaded inside from inspiring English sources

For four months, the hotel served as the headquarters — and effectively the prison — of Alassane Ouattara, the winner of last year's presidential election, who was blockaded inside by the nation's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo.

He coordinated relief efforts for the Ukrainian soldiers who were blockaded inside their bases by Russian troops.

Updated at 5.31pm GMT 5.14pm GMT UN envoy blockaded inside Crimea shop The UN special envoy to Ukraine, Robert Serry, was blockaded inside a coffee shop in Crimea by a militia, according to ITV Europe editor James Mates, who is in the shop with Serry.

More than 100 legislators, government ministers, journalists and officials were blockaded inside the Bulgarian Parliament building late Tuesday night and into Wednesday, as the 40th day of largely peaceful street protests in Sofia, the capital, turned confrontational.

For the next several months the Americans were blockaded inside the pueblo.

But in the past month, Israeli officials have choked off Karni's traffic from the outside, while Palestinian demonstrators on the inside blockaded trucks and torched factories.

On July 31, a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher blockaded herself inside her 1971 Ford Pinto on an MVP work site.

Cleomenes invaded the territory of Sicyon and blockaded Aratus inside the city for three months before Aratus was able to escape to attend the Achaean council at Aegium.

She then blockaded the German ships inside the Dardanelles.

She then blockaded the German ships inside the Dardanelles until the ship was ordered on 10 September to the South Atlantic to take part in the hunt for Admiral Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron.

China was almost completely blockaded.