Sentence examples for blockades from from inspiring English sources
Although its refineries and storage depots are full of fuel, the country has been prevented by blockades from delivering the fuel to service stations.
Its vast array of websites and services, including household names such as YouTube, Blogger and Gmail, were hit by regular blockades from China's "great firewall", and the flak from activists began to chip away at the company's previously friendly image.
Relatives said Mr. Abu Sway had been unemployed for more than a year, since the start of the current Palestinian uprising, prevented by Israeli Army blockades from reaching construction jobs in Israel and other areas of the West Bank where he had worked as a laborer.
The tech industry's practice of ferrying its employees from their San Francisco apartments to their Silicon Valley campuses (about 40 miles south) in private charter buses that use public bus stops began drawing protests and blockades from anti-gentrification activists in 2013.
It is, of course, a politically sensitive time to be launching anything in San Francisco around buses, given the Google bus blockades from the last year.
While it is definitely a politically sensitive time to be launching anything in San Francisco around buses, given the Google bus blockades from the last year, there is historical precedent in the city for a mix of both public and private solutions to transit.
"The patients have suffered from blockades and from being harassed by protestors, but this is new," he said.
For Armenia the benefits are potentially much bigger in relative terms: at present it is under blockade from neighbours Turkey and Azerbaijan.
The year is 1961, and Monaco is facing a blockade from France, which threatens to raid its coffers to finance the war in Algeria.
But as the city's residents prepare for their second winter under Isis control, economic blockade from Baghdad and bombardment by the US-led coalition has made life grim.
With Gaza under a tight economic blockade from Israel, hundreds of tunnels have been dug under the southern border with Egypt to smuggle in food, fuel, construction materials, cars and even live animals.
