How to use in-sentence of “blockade”:
+ She sank in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island in 1778.
+ An indecisive winter of blockade and siege followed.
+ The Israeli blockade itself against Gaza itself is not illegal, and it’s okay for Israeli ships to operate in international waters to enforce it” said Allen Weiner, former U.S.
+ A blockade runner is usually a lighter-weight ship used for slipping past a naval blockade of a port or strait.
+ The Blockade ended in May 1949.
+ The USSR lifted its blockade at midnight, on 11 May 1949.
+ The Chancellor of Germany was against this sort of blockade because it meant attacking neutral ships as those of the United States as well.
+ But blockade running became more specialized.
Example sentences of “blockade”:
+ Events such as the split of Josip Broz Tito and Berlin Blockade prompted stricter control.
+ On April 19, he declared a blockade of the Southern ports from South Carolina to Texas.
+ Further, it called for the lifting of the blockade of Gaza.
+ The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip was said to be a safety measure by Israel, but the Free Gaza Movement are opposed.
+ As in later wars, the main jobs of submarines were to enforce a blockade and to sink enemy warships.
+ The Soviet Union also did economic blockade of Lithuania.
+ The Royal Navy set up a Blockade of Africa to stop the trade, and treaties with other nations allowed the blockade ships to stop their slave trade.
+ The blockade runners of the American Civil War were specially outfitted Confederate States of AmericaConfederate ships designed to slip through the Southern by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
+ Still, the blockade runners could make some profit, but not nearly as much as later in the war.
+ One of Lincoln’s military strategies was to blockade the South’s ports and approximately At the start of the war, with only a few ships, this was all but impossible.
+ But as the Union built more ships, the blockade became more effective.
+ Events such as the split of Josip Broz Tito and Berlin Blockade prompted stricter control.
+ On April 19, he declared a blockade of the Southern ports from South Carolina to Texas.
+ Further, it called for the lifting of the blockade of Gaza.
+ The flags forms alliances and blockade islands.
+ On October 20, Kennedy chose to blockade Cuba to stop all ships going there, rather than listen to his advisers, who wanted to attack.
+ Because it was an island, Britain had built a strong Royal Navy and used this to blockade France to prevent French ships from leaving their ports.
+ The Bosnian representative at the UN Security Council, Ivan Barbalić, condemned the Israeli attack, called for an investigation and wanted Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza., “Salem-News”, May-31-2010.
+ The blockade was made up of squadrons of ships set up at different points along the Southern coast line.
+ Supporters of the blockade remained along the road, including the camp.
+ First, a blockade on Japan would have starved the nation.
+ Because the western allies flew in all the supplies that normally came by land, the Berlin Blockade is also known as the Berlin Airlift.
More in-sentence examples of “blockade”:
+ The Invasion began as a blockade around the planet, with Nute Gunray taking charge of the fleet, this blockade was set up in order to protest the taxation of trade routes by the new republic, however the real intention of the blockade was to stage a droid invasion of the planet so that Senator Palpatine could gain sympathy in the Galactic Senate.
+ The Blockade stopped after the Western powers used airplanes to airlift food and other things that people needed.
+ The team also missed France due to their car being stuck in a blockade by French truck drivers.
+ France was under naval blockade imposed by Great Britain and could not import the pure graphite sticks from the British Grey Knotts mines – the only known source in the world for solid graphite.
+ The rule made it more difficult for players to avoid pawn exchanges and blockade the position.
+ Risking war with the United States, England secretly built several blockade runners for the South.
+ The Soviet Union began the blockade because they thought the western half of Germany was becoming too strong, because one currency had recently been introduced throughout the entire western half – the Deutsche Mark.
+ This leads to a blockade of blood flow in many organs.
+ He advised Kennedy to blockade Cuba and stop the Soviet Union from putting more missiles there.
+ The Berlin Blockade was from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.
+ In August 1948, the Soviet Union began setting up its forces around the Eastern Bloc due to the Berlin Airlift that ended Stalin’s blockade policy and the United States, which cannot tolerate this communist activities by Russians, began setting up relationship with Japan in order to prevent this spread of communism.
+ Very often blockade running is done in order to bring food or arms to a blockaded city.
+ In 1883 the blockade was so severe it took almost two months before the flow of logs was re-established.
+ The successful blockade of Germany contributed to its military defeat in 1918, and still in effect, enforced also the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in mid-1919.
+ During the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, Truman ordered the Berlin Airlift, which flew in tons of food to West Germany to feed the starving people.
+ Army Chief of Staff, was in Europe when the blockade began.
+ The Americans also recruited ex-Luftwaffe aircraft mechanics to help with maintenance, when the Allies realised that the blockade was going to last longer than the expected three weeks.
+ As few as 25% of blockade runners were successful later in the war.
+ The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Israeli action, calling it a “criminal attack” and expressed its “most energetic condemnation.” Cuba calls for the lifting of the Gaza blockade and reaffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian people.
+ The real threat was not invasion, but blockade aided by mines.
+ As Germany could not fight with the big British Royal Navy on an even basis, the only possible way Germany could impose a blockade on Britain was through the submarines.
+ The USSR’s first ships arrived at the blockade on October 25 and were prevented by the US Navy from reaching Cuba.
+ Both the German Empire and United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandUnited Kingdom relied heavily on imports to feed their population and supply their war industry; thus both aimed to blockade each other.
+ Many more had to die from starvation after the Armistice with Germany Armistice in November 1918 as the blockade was continued into 1919, in order to force Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919.
+ The blockade was part of General Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan to put economic pressure on the Confederacy until it returned to the Union.
+ When the blockade went into effect in April 1961, most of that year’s cotton had already been shipped.
+ In 1948, the Soviets tried to force the western allies out of Berlin by a blockade of the western sectors.
+ People who support of the blockade consider the action taken at the Unisʼtotʼen checkpoint and the lack of consultation with hereditary chiefs to be violations of the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
+ After the Blockade was set up, the trade federation began sending Battle Droids down to the planets surface.
+ The Republic of IrelandIrish Taoiseach Brian Cowen described the attacks as “very serious” and stated that he feels the blockade action was a violation of international law.
+ In January, before the declaration of “unrestricted submarine warfare” as the submarine blockade was called, 43,550 tonnes of shipping had been sunk by U-boats.
+ However, the potential profits from a successful blockade run are tremendous.
+ In response the United States sent a large number of ships to blockade Cuba thus preventing the Soviet Union from delivering these weapons.
+ As the war progressed and more Union warships became available for the blockade and the number of available ports became fewer and fewer.
+ The British established a naval blockade of Germany early in the war.
+ They learn that the Neimoidians are sending a blockade to the planet of Naboo.
+ This worked in favor of the Union even though the blockade was not that effective yet.
+ The 3 year old blockade was upheld by Flotilla 13.
+ By extension, a blockade is any effort to make sure that supplies, troops, information or aid do not reach an opposing force.
+ By war’s end, the Union had captured or destroyed 1500 blockade runners.
+ The second diff may be debatable, as modern historians believe the naval blockade and the internal unrest in Germany led to her eventual defeat – especially as the US troops had not yet reached the front-line in any real numbers – but the first diff is fairly shocking.
+ Notable users of blockade runners include the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and Germany during both World War One and World War Two.
+ Back at Diablo Canyon’s Main Gate, the human blockade began.
+ On September 7, 2006, Israel ended its 8-week long air blockade on Lebanon.
+ The skirmish took place from May 29, 1861 to June 1, 1861 during the Union Union campaign to blockade the Chesapeake Bay.
+ The Invasion began as a blockade around the planet, with Nute Gunray taking charge of the fleet, this blockade was set up in order to protest the taxation of trade routes by the new republic, however the real intention of the blockade was to stage a droid invasion of the planet so that Senator Palpatine could gain sympathy in the Galactic Senate.
+ The Blockade stopped after the Western powers used airplanes to airlift food and other things that people needed.