Sentence examples for economic blockade from inspiring English sources

Hamas demands a lifting of Israel's economic blockade.

They, the Americans, threaten an economic blockade, but the U.S.A. will not attack Cuba.

Palestinians contend that their problems with Israeli utilities payments are caused by Israel's economic blockade.

Israel has declared Gaza a "hostile entity" and imposed a tight economic blockade.

But the Soviets remained unbending and imposed an economic blockade on Lithuania.

Ukraine's economic blockade has been unpopular among those living within rebel-controlled areas.

This "economic blockade" created a sense of siege in the valley.

Indeed, the suffering in Gaza, from war and the economic blockade, has been grievous.

The economic blockade, they argue, and the Israelis' unwillingness to lift it, is justification for the attacks.

However, Israel has mounted an ever-tightening economic blockade of Gaza, the land it calls a "hostile territory".

The result is the sort of broad-based economic blockade that everyone agreed long ago to be a bad idea.