Sentence examples for blockading from inspiring English sources

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blockading

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Present participle of blockade

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Indeed, Wood's views on Trident were well-established when she was arrested in 2007 for blockading Faslane naval base in Scotland, and, though she says she wouldn't do it now that she's party leader, "my position on Trident is as it was".

Massive crowds of opposition supporters have taken to the streets, blockading public buildings; regions supporting Mr Yanukovich have talked of breaking away; and the authorities have been forced to take emergency measures to avert a collapse in the banking system.

Ships are blockading Yemeni ports to stop arms deliveries.

For weeks, locals had been blockading the highway through the town, demanding that Mr Robles quit over alleged embezzlement.

In Britain, whatever else a "metropolitan" may be, he cannot be one of the yeomen William Hague, the Conservative leader, called "fine upstanding citizens" for blockading the fuel refineries during the summer's petrol-tax protests.

Exploiting the situation, militant Islamists have jumped on the Bedouin bandwagon.Islamist fighters from Gaza allied to Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood are said to have formed a vanguard in Sinai in the hope of deterring the Egyptian army from blockading the Palestinian enclave from the west, as it did under President Hosni Mubarak before he was ousted two years ago.

After that province's boats hit back in late July, blockading an Alaskan ferry for three days in Prince Rupert harbour, and all eight such ferries then declared a boycott of that port, Messrs Clinton and Chrétien hastily named special envoys, to make peace one day.

Mobs rampaged through the city centre, smashing windows in government offices and banks, building barricades from paving stones, and blockading the airport.

Students have been blockading university campuses for weeks in protest at higher-education reform.

From their annual conference in Glasgow, most union leaders joined the outcry against the handful of (largely self-employed) hauliers blockading the refineries.

At the same time, the Saudi navy is blockading the coast to stop arms reaching the Houthis by boat.

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