Sentence examples similar to initiating a blockade from inspiring English sources
Nelson arrived shortly afterwards and initiated a blockade of the port.
When the Soviets initiated a blockade of Yugoslavia following the Tito Stalin split, Lie organized humanitarian aid-shipments from Norway.
Drake and all British inhabitants of Genoa were expelled, and Gell initiated a blockade of the city, seizing neutral merchant shipping destined for the port.
When the French Mediterranean Fleet was destroyed at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798, the British Royal Navy was able to initiate a blockade of Malta, assisted by an uprising among the native Maltese population against French rule.
Ankara must discourage private Turkish groups from initiating a second blockade-running Gaza flotilla and press Turkish companies and banks to better enforce international sanctions against Iran.
Nevertheless, it is recommended to screen patients for latent TBC before initiating a therapeutic TNF blockade, as well as to evaluate any history of a potential prior exposure to mycobacteria [ 18].
Régénérée had an uninterrupted passage to Egypt, arriving on 1 March, one day before the British Expeditionary Force initiated a close blockade of the coast.
President John F. Kennedy could have justified a military attack on Soviet bases in Cuba, with potentially horrendous consequences, but he found a creative way to exert American power to protect our security -- a naval blockade -- without initiating a war.
Na+ channel blockade delayed recovery of cellular excitability, but also introduced a nonuniform dispersion of refractoriness along the cardiac fiber that can serve as a substrate for initiating a new arrhythmia.
Take initiating a friendship slowly.
