Sentence examples for blockades happened from inspiring English sources

"The blockades happened very early in the morning, with groups walking through the hills and attempting to avoid surveillance, although sometimes running into the military or police on land and in helicopters," said one anarchist activist, who was arrested during a motorway blockade.

The blockade happened during a busy bank holiday weekend for ferry operators.

Similar protests and blockades have happened from the Amazon to the Himalayas, from Burma to Malaysia in recent years.

"The clinic blockade that happened in May is a throwback to the 1990s, when individuals would obstruct entrances to clinics," Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney for the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, told HuffPost.

Had England recognized the South, and acted to end the blockade, as nearly happened several times, the Union would have lost, no matter what Grant or Lincoln did.

"After the earthquakes, we were very hopeful there would be a revival of tourism from October onwards, but due to the strike and the blockade this has not happened.

Clearly many issues were still top of mind; otherwise February's blockade wouldn't have happened.

The cool heads of the OPP prevailed, no formal police action happened and the blockade came down peacefully out of fear of the lawsuit.

General Eiland, a former national security adviser, said in his briefing that more ships might try to breach Israel's Gaza blockade and so lessons from what happened on the Turkish flotilla were important.

What happened to arresting the building, blockading the bastard Tories in their own spring forum for so long that they worry about whether or not they'll be able to catch the last train home?

Much depended on what England's diplomat in Washington, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, made of the situation: "If Lord Lyons finds out what has happened," Du Pont said, alluding to the overburdened blockade, "Mr. Seward will have a hard road to hoe".