Sentence examples for blockading it from inspiring English sources

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have arrived to broker a peace process between the inoffensive little planet of Naboo, and the ruthlessly commercial Trade Federation, which is blockading it and preparing to wage war on Naboo for its mercantile ends.

Because they are holding up progress, blockading it.

Twenty protesters have targeted the headquarters of energy company Cuadrilla by blockading it with their bodies.

The tunnels have played a vital role in getting food and supplies in Gaza after the Israeli government began blockading it after the election of Hamas in 2007.

The Spanish have never accepted the loss of Gibraltar, besieging it on three occasions and most recently blockading it from 1969 to 1985.

On Thursday, a defiant Bundy again defended the occupation and called on the authorities blockading it, rather than the remaining occupiers, to leave.

Having surrounded the base the women began to blockade it.

By afternoon, dump trucks were depositing rock into the river in a race to blockade it before an impending rainstorm washed more ash downstream.

The action involves the death of a man resembling Goytisolo who visits Sarajevo when Serbs blockaded it between 1992 and 1996, and killed more than 10,000 people.

Pursued by Nelson and not daring to attack him, it turned back toward Europe and took refuge in Cádiz in July 1805; there the British blockaded it.

She said the men in her neighborhood have blockaded it, so the people and the houses have remained safe.