Sentence examples for border blockade from inspiring English sources

Spain lifted its border blockade in 1985.

Hamas says it will not halt its rocket until it receives international assurances that Gaza's seven-year-old border blockade will be lifted.

Hamas says it will not halt its rocket fire without firm guarantees that Gaza's seven-year border blockade will be lifted.

Pakistani military and government officials did not confirm the border blockade, but they protested the airstrike, which was at least the third in a week.

In Gaza, a tiny coastal strip where the population of 1.5 million has suffered frequent Israeli retaliatory strikes and raids and a yearlong border blockade, the truce brought a sense of relief.

Hamas has demanded a halt to all Israeli military action in Gaza and the lifting of the border blockade that Israel imposed after Hamas took over the coastal territory a year ago.

Mexican trucking executives say that even if border blockades are lifted by the end of this year, as President Bush has promised, only a few of the biggest Mexican rigs could make deliveries deep into the United States.

The Mexicali-based protesters say they plan to continue periodic border blockades until action is taken in the shooting inquiry, a prospect that worries officials in Calexico.

But Hamas, an offshoot of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, said the plan failed to address its demands on ending the border blockades and releasing hundreds of its activists in the occupied West Bank activists held by Israel.

Due to the closure of the airport in the capital city of Sanaa; Saudi-led coalition border blockades; and repeated bombings of farms, wells, and agriculture, food supplies have dwindled.

If a fly on the wall would expect to witness harsh glares, and disagreements about borders, blockades and the pending resumption of peace talks, that fly would have landed in the wrong place.