Sentence examples for it's blockade from inspiring English sources

Markos points out that he never said Israel could not run it's blockade, they just should do so with more competence and less shooting an American four times in the head.

Leningrad suffered terribly during the war — it was blockaded for more than two years by the Germans, deprived of food and heat.

The canal was closed for several months during the 1956 Suez crisis, and it was blockaded by the military for eight years after the 1967 war with Israel.

ATHENS — The man at the center of Greece's debt crisis is surviving on four to five hours of sleep a night and could not get to his office last week because it was blockaded by striking employees.

The bridge played an important role during the so-called Oka Crisis in 1990 when it was blockaded by Mohawks from the reserve in support of the Mohawks of the nearby Kanesatake Reserve, who were seeking to prevent the expansion of a golf course and construction of condominiums at Oka on a Mohawk burial ground.

During the war the bulk of the Russian Pacific Fleet was located in Port Arthur where it was blockaded by the Japanese.

But it's the blockade of the nation's highest court that has captured Americans' attention, and they think the Senate ought to be holding hearings on federal Judge Merrick Garland, the nominee to replace Scalia.

In the winter of 1948-49 he found himself flying old Halifax bombers over Germany, going to the relief of Berlin after it had been blockaded by the Russians.

At the end of the day, as catastrophic as it is, the blockade of Gaza is a distraction from the underlying issue.

For Armenia the benefits are potentially much bigger in relative terms: at present it is under blockade from neighbours Turkey and Azerbaijan.

The coincidence of findings is more salient because it is the blockade of the ON-response (with LAA) that interferes selectively with ocular growth and refractive compensation to –ve lens defocus.