Sentence examples for in a blockade from inspiring English sources

It got failure, the denial of our rights, a blockade — Arafat was caught in a blockade.

Late last year, protests culminated in a blockade of the main road to the plantation and 40 people were arrested.

"We are living in a blockade here and we can't go anywhere, because the Russians are here and there, and we fear they will never leave," she said.

I remember participating in a blockade at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, early in the war, when Iraqi crude was coming to its processing unit.

The ship, which Cook sailed in the Pacific Ocean, passed through a number of hands before being used in a blockade.

It is no different than if the Arab world joined in a blockade to starve Israelis to force an end to the 43-year-old occupation.

During the war she bombarded Ottoman ports in Arabia and assisted in enforcing a blockade on maritime traffic in the area.

Both in murine and nonhuman primate models of asthma in vivo, a blockade of OX40L inhibited TSLP-mediated Th2 inflammation.

It left in place a blockade on the shipment into Gaza of goods, including concrete that is badly needed to repair buildings damaged in clashes with Israel.

Such an enhancement might have been due, at least in part, to a blockade in the re-internalization of secreted RSPs by HeLa-prME cells.

• Imposing collective punishment in the form of a blockade, in violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.