Sentence examples for during the blockade from inspiring English sources

Excerpts from the diaries kept by Leningraders during the blockade balance Reid's lively academic prose.

There were many matches during the blockade but 'in the people's memory there was one which was written in legend', wrote Russian football historian Aksel Vartanyan.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since the war started, "The number of trucks Israel has allowed into Gaza is much higher than during the blockade".

As the war drew to a close and Union forces closed in on Montgomery, Confederate soldiers set fire to all the cotton Lehman and Durr had stored up during the blockade.

An Israeli rights group, Gisha, which waged a legal battle to make the document public, contended that Israel had calculated the calorie needs to restrict the goods that it allowed in during the blockade.

We have allowed humanitarian aid to flow to Gaza during the blockade and will continue to do so.

An estimated 300,000 tourists were stranded during the blockades of the Bangkok airports by the yellow-shirted demonstrators from the People's Alliance for Democracy.

In Katmandu and the surrounding valley, the king and the army were given some credit for the fact that shops were open and traffic moving during the blockades the Maoists called for two weeks after the coup, and again this month.

Patients were asked to perform simple range of motion (ROM) exercises during the blockades.

The only German ship to enter the Australia Station during 1942 was the blockade runner and supply ship Ramses, which was sunk by and HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk on 26 November, shortly after Ramses left Batavia bound for France.

Fourteen people were arrested during the course of the blockade, igniting a flame of activism, community organizing and resistance that spread far and wide.