Sentence examples for breaking the blockade from inspiring English sources

Israeli military officials warned Thursday that they would use force if necessary to prevent boats from breaking the blockade.

The remains of the Hunley – which was built in Mobile, Alabama, and brought to Charleston in hopes of breaking the blockade – were discovered off the coast in 1995.

Israel scaled back the embargo in response to tremendous pressure after its deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships last month aimed at breaking the blockade.

On June 12 Iran dispatched its own aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and offered to provide an escort by its Revolutionary Guards for other ships breaking the blockade.

"We will do anything we have to do to prevent a boat from breaking the blockade," a top naval official said in a briefing for foreign journalists.

Sheikh Hamad flew to Egypt and crossed the border into Gaza, a move billed as breaking the blockade in force since the Islamists of Hamas took power in 2007.

He called on Muslim militants in Egypt to help break the blockade of Gaza.

(A cloture vote of 60 senators would still be required to break the blockade).

It was intended to break the blockade or to increase international pressure to end it.

An airlift broke the blockade; at the same time Truman sent 60 B-29 bombers to Britain.

The rebel effort to break the blockade of Grozny represents a new and critical phase of the four-month war.