On Monday, Mr. Saakashvili instituted a blockade of Adzharia, and on Wednesday he sent Prime Minister Nino Burdzhanadze to meet with Mr. Abashidze in the Adzharian capital, Batumi.
People were told that the government was stockpiling food to feed the starving South Korean masses on the blessed day of reunification, or that the United States had instituted a blockade against North Korea.
Meanwhile the Athenians, greatly encouraged by the inaction of the Mitylenians, summoned allies to their aid, who came in all the quicker from seeing so little vigour displayed by the Lesbians, and bringing round their ships to a new station to the south of the town, fortified two camps, one on each side of the city, and instituted a blockade of both the harbours.
In response, the British instituted a blockade of the islands, stationing ships off every port and seizing any vessel that tried to enter or leave.
The remaining ships, except for Lombardia, took part in the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 12, where they provided gunfire support to Italian troops, bombarded Ottoman ports, and instituted a blockade in the Red Sea.
In September 1989, Popular Front APFF) leaders and their ever-increasing supporters managed to institute a railway blockade against Armenia and the NKAO, effectively crippling Armenia's economy, as 85% of the cargo and goods arrived through rail traffic, although some claim this was a response to Armenia's embargo against Nakhichevan ASSR that had started earlier that summer.
"It had only been a second, but one that showed me how easily people anywhere could be aroused in a time of a crisis, despite all attempts at understanding". Winston Churchill, England's first lord of the admiralty, instituted a naval blockade of Germany.
They instituted a naval blockade of ISIS' only port on the Mediterranean.
In early 1994, seemingly turning up the pressure on the republic to relinquish its claims to the name Macedonia, Greece instituted an economic blockade that had dire consequences for Macedonia.
Immediately after the outbreak of war, the British had instituted an economic blockade of Germany, with the aim of preventing all supplies reaching that country from the outside world.
Technically, a blockade can only be instituted by a government at war.
