Sentence examples for through a blockade from inspiring English sources

"I just can't envision Dick Gilman trying to break through a blockade".

His goal was a masterpiece, slaloming through a blockade of defenders before smashing the ball in from 25 yards and setting up a 3-1 win.

On 16 June, the company's massive rig, the Polar Pioneer, had broken through a blockade of valiant activists in kayaks outside Seattle – the kayaktivists – and was being towed up the coast.

Following weeks of strikes at oil refineries in France that have triggered national fuel shortages, police officers have broken through a blockade at the Grandpuits refinery, southeast of Paris.

Ukraine's western-backed president, Petro Poroshenko, said government forces had managed to break through a blockade by pro-Moscow rebels to reach soldiers camped out at the strategic airport in the insurgent-held bastion of Luhansk.

Yugo Kovach, Winterborne Houghton, England Gaza and Hamas There is a major flaw to Nicholas Kristof's logic that leads him to conclude with a call to end Gaza's siege "once and for all" ("Burrowing through a blockade," Views, July 5).

Supplies from Iran and Syria are getting through despite a blockade.

Israel has tried to stop the flood of weapons through a naval blockade.

An effective gasoline embargo can only be implemented through a naval blockade.

Only a trickle of food is making it through a land blockade imposed by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Moments later, as several opposition candidates tried to push through a police blockade in front of the city's main square, rocks started to fly.