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was blockaded

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To create a blockade against.

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During the Napoleonic Wars, Norway was blockaded by the British.

The War of 1812 was going on and New Haven harbor was blockaded by British warships.

In 2004, when the group sailed to Portugal, the vessel was blockaded by two warships.

Also, phones were cut and the home of a key opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, was blockaded.

The McDonald's restaurant, which Mr. Bove is charged with ransacking last year, was blockaded by two dozen police vehicles.

Protests by miners in Bolivia demanding changes to laws turned violent this week after a highway was blockaded.

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In August, he said, his platoon was blockading a road and caught a truck trying to sneak through.

Army garrisons were blockaded.

1555: Interfax reports three militants, possibly including the group's leader, are blockaded in school basement.

Several major highways across northern Argentina were blockaded today by unemployed workers who burned tires.

Since the mid-eighties, clinics across the country had been blockaded, vandalized, and firebombed.

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