Sentence examples for proclaimed a blockade from inspiring English sources

He then proclaimed a blockade of the Southern ports.

Although he concurred in the proslavery Dred Scott decision (1857), he spoke for the court in the 1863 Prize Cases, which upheld the power of the president to proclaim a blockade of Confederate ports and to seize neutral shipping.

He proclaimed a naval blockade of the Confederate states, although he insisted that they did not legally constitute a sovereign country but were instead states in rebellion.

The experiment was immediately proclaimed a success.

Nowra was proclaimed a town in 1857.

Mr Savimbi was proclaimed a freedom fighter.

Zanzibar was proclaimed a one-party state.

"Enough is enough," proclaimed a leader.

"Tianshi!" Julius proclaimed a second time, a little louder.

A member of this government, Philipp Scheidemann, hastily proclaimed a republic.

Once, a station sign proclaimed a resonant place-name: Xi'an.