Sentence examples for military blockade from inspiring English sources

Bayada was cut off; getting in or out was nearly impossible because of the snipers and the military blockade.

What is more, the Israeli military blockade has increased Christian support for Palestinian control of Christian holy places.

Burchett violated the US military blockade of Hiroshima, and was the first Western journalist to visit that devastated city.

Professor Crawford insightfully outs NATO's use of war ships in the Mediterranean Sea under the banner of stopping human trafficking to be a military blockade of desperate people.

Poroshenko has previously vowed to kill "hundreds" of gunmen for every lost soldier and ordered an airtight military blockade of Luhansk and Donetsk.

If he does, Israel is prepared to withdraw its military blockade of Palestinian towns and permit Palestinians to return to their jobs in Israel.

In the Opium Wars, the West used military blockades.

Others are trapped in neighborhoods isolated by military blockades, beyond the reach of aid groups.

Official corruption, Israeli military blockades of Palestinian towns and uncertainty about the future all worked to discourage investment and disrupt commerce.

Into the vacuum in Mexico comes social media, as citizen bloggers and tweeters post news, rumors and updates about military blockades, gunfights and helicopters overhead.

On Tuesday the People's Alliance, which has ties to the country's conservative elite and to some officers in the military, blockaded several government ministries and briefly forced a pro-government television station off the air.