Sentence examples for trade blockade from inspiring English sources

A brutal trade blockade was imposed.

Belgrade reacted by stopping transfers of money and stepping up enforcement of its trade blockade of Montenegro.

Although Washington lifted restrictions on remittances and travel for Cuban Americans, US citizens still cannot visit the Caribbean island and the trade blockade is still in place.

Those who most vociferously back the trade blockade are Cuban-Americans of a similar generation to the Castros who have now become a grumpy minority.

These include the systematic use of rape, torture and execution as a means of terrorising and collectively punishing the civilian population, a partial trade blockade of districts deemed sympathetic to the rebels and the destruction of villages.

Now Phantom Menace is back, in 3D, and a new generation can feel their hearts sink at that baffling and boring opening, all about the trade blockade and taxation quarrel.

On Tuesday another peace group, Sisters Against the Arms Trade, blockaded a missile factory owned by MBDA, in which BAE has a 37.5% stake.

Trade blockades led to vastly different numbers and types of invasive birds in Western and Eastern Europe, new research reveals.

The Republic had to set up all necessities of life, ranging from 'postage stamps, army badges, and train tickets' whilst subject to Dutch trade blockades.

You sometimes have to go down on your knees at the store and beg for bread, and still they don't give it to you". Ask him about the connection between Armenia's poverty and its long-running conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has left Armenia under trade blockades by both Azerbaijan and Turkey, and he shrugs.

But thanks to Soviet backing, commerce with various U.S. allies and others, and now Venezuela's support and more than $400 million annually of exempted U.S. trade, our "blockade" is instead both a joke and a gift that keeps on giving; its formal existence lets the régime deflect blame for its own mismanagement and repression; though not everyone still buys this, quite enough do.