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Sentence Examples The student-led demonstrators blockaded government offices and effectively shut down most of the capital, with no bus services operating. Town Hall bosses have criticised residents who blockaded a road after a three-old-boy was involved in an accident with a car. Deep-sea fishermen blockaded the majority of French southern yacht and sport ports in protest against derv price increases. There they blockaded the access road with vehicles, and when construction workers arrived, denied them access. The students from the youth activist group blockaded an intersection just outside the central plaza. Several blocks from the building, she found the area was blockaded by police. Overseas colonies were ruthlessly picked off, and the Republic's ports were blockaded. For five days, London traffic ground to a standstill when police blockaded the area. But no help came, the baronial forces blockaded the city, and the rebel front began to crumble. About 40 protesters blockaded the Burnhills landfill last Saturday and prevented delivery of six wagonloads of waste. In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin. On Monday Loyalist extremists had blockaded 125 main roads, closing down entire cities and towns. Around the country train services were hit as workers blockaded railway lines. In Kiev, protesters standing five deep and linking arms blockaded the cabinet building. The drivers blockaded roads and disrupted traffic in the centre of the city. The next day thousands of workers defied armed police and blockaded a major toll road into the provincial capital. Again, we could have blockaded and starved them out but that was not necessary. Over the weekend peace activists blockaded the road and entered the plant, which is near Reading. In recent months, Brazilian farmers have blockaded roads to stop soybean shipments as a way to publicize their financial plight. In April, coal miners in Liaoning province repeatedly blockaded railway lines to protest layoffs. Show More Sentences The area has been blockaded on either side stretching for about 25-30 km with strategically placed disinfection points. The French coast was now blockaded, and to compound the chaos, in August the Convention banned the export of all goods of first necessity and embargoed all neutral ships. Of the army's 80,000 men, 11,000 are guarding oil installations yet pipelines are still regularly blown up, and roads blockaded. Pandoro's decision to withdraw from that market effectively blockaded that trade. The snap referendum was held two weeks after Russian forces seized the peninsula and blockaded Ukrainian soldiers in their bases. Furthermore, 99 union branch offices were blockaded and occupied by the authorities. But the Americans blockaded the road and refused to let people enter. Zone 7 still remains blockaded from the rest of the zones, with disinfection and dipping at strategic areas. The United States and Britain were at war with Germany and Japan and blockaded them. In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded. The rescue mission saved the city when the Russians blockaded road and rail connections, trying to starve the population. In Syria, hundreds of civilians fled from rebel-held towns east of Damascus that had been blockaded for at least 18 months. The groups have blockaded roads and, in some cases, set fire to vehicles. As they met, hundreds of civilians fled rebel-held areas near Damascus that had been blockaded for over a year. Together, they blockaded the Spanish and sent urgently to the Netherlands for reinforcements. He believed that trying to bring warships out of the blockaded port at Brest would cause unnecessary delays, and could be disastrous. Blake blockaded Rupert's fleet in Kinsale from 22 May, allowing Oliver Cromwell to land at Dublin on 15 August. Martim Afonso de Mello arrived at the Pearl River but was blockaded by a Ming fleet. Later, however, French forces blockaded the harbours, forcing the government to give in and let French troops enter the city. The British blockaded ports and captured other cities for brief periods, but they failed to defeat Washington's forces. Show More Sentences During the 17th century, Antwerp continued to be blockaded by the Dutch but became a major European center for industry and art. At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded American ports, cutting off trade and allowing the British to raid the coast at will. The local troops, blockaded into Perevalnoye barracks for days, seized the moment as Russian paratroops temporarily withdrew. They were now blockaded in by the British fleet, and most were abandoned and their guns taken off them. In a distant blockade, the blockaders stay well away from the blockaded coast and try to intercept any ships going in or out. This inspection can occur inside the blockaded area or in international waters, but never inside the territorial waters of a neutral nation. Kublai's new administration blockaded Ariqboke in Mongolia to cut food supplies, causing a famine. On the day last month when the sculptures, carefully wrapped and crated, were to travel to Bogotá, locals backed by outside agitators blockaded the road and prevented workers from loading the trucks. Seven climate activists have been arrested during a series of protests across the UK on Monday, which have seen a coal conference blockaded and the occupation of shale gas explorer's PR company. But the petrol shortages, blockaded oil depots and schools, jammed roads, burnt cars and sporadic violence this week were of a quite different order. His eldest son is set to take the helm. On the day of America's election, Sudanese forces blockaded a number of refugee camps in Darfur and moved out hundreds of their residents despite UN condemnation. For example, from 17 to 19 December, the abattoirs of a slaughter group, 'the only one in France opposed to the application of the price scale' according to one of these news reports, were blockaded. In the weeks preceding the conclusion of the agreement their members were subjected to illegal action in which industrial plants were blockaded, thus preventing from carrying on any economic activity, and meat was destroyed. In France, groups of breeders blockaded abattoirs, mounted demonstrations and stopped trucks to check the origin of the meat and destroy non-French meat. They need to go to Lhasa to see what things are like there, what happens to people who have been arrested and what is happening at the blockaded monasteries. In southwest China, 1,000 retired steel workers, mostly women, blockaded two highways in front of the state-owned Guiyang Steel Factory to protest meager pensions. The European Union is to fund a medical aid project to help several thousand people blockaded on the island of Jaffna as a result of the fighting. By the summer of 1990, the Croatian Serbs in Knin had blockaded the town and prevented Croatian Ministry of the Interior forces from operating in the area. Food shortages are widespread and certain communities are besieged or blockaded by armed groups and consequently find themselves cut-off from social services, including health and education services. They have blockaded one hamlet since 28 November: 60 people have managed to flee, but those who remain are in danger, as are other peasant farmers in the municipality. Show More Sentences In the summer of 2000 the degree of dependence on oil in the UK food system was demonstrated once again when protestors blockaded oil refineries and fuel distribution depots. Communities normally at risk, such as those displaced or blockaded, as well as indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities and other ethnic minorities, were particularly affected and suffered violations and breaches. On 28 November about 120 heavily armed paramilitaries, most of them in camouflage, blockaded the hamlet of Las Perlas, in Argelia Municipality, Cauca Department. In recent months, the dirt-poor peasants of Honduras have invaded farms and blockaded bridges to force the government to fulfill its promises. In January 414 Roman naval forces blockaded Ataulf in Narbo, where he married Galla Placidia. Alfred blockaded the Viking ships in Devon, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit. Britain blockaded the American colonies economically so the American public debt increased dramatically. In 1416, a number of French ships blockaded Portsmouth, which housed ships that were set to invade Normandy. He formed an alliance of pirates and blockaded the port of Charles Town, South Carolina. Late that month his flotilla blockaded the port of Charles Town in the Province of South Carolina. In August 1282, part of the Genoese fleet blockaded Pisan commerce near the river Arno. In short order, the Prussian army drove the Swedes back, occupied most of Swedish Pomerania, and blockaded its capital Stralsund. After declaring war on Britain, France was blockaded by the Royal Navy, which caused shortages that worsened the problem of inflation. It was finally abandoned in March 1700 after a siege by Spanish forces, which also blockaded the harbour. In the Caribbean, intending to damage British trade, the French blockaded the lucrative sugar islands of Barbados and Jamaica. Meanwhile, Ali's troops loosely blockaded Vellore as the East India Company regrouped. Trawlermen blockaded Calais in protest at European Union proposals to slash fishing quotas they say will cost them jobs and money. The town became a major base for the parliamentarian navy and was blockaded from the sea. In 1828, Great Britain blockaded the port in retaliation for piracy. Now also the North Sea was brought under English control, and the Dutch fleet was blockaded in various ports until the Battle of Scheveningen, where Tromp was killed. Show More Sentences De Oquendo replied that his fleet had to be repaired first, but that he could not obtain masts and other materials now that the Dutch blockaded him. Germany was blockaded, leading to an increasing shortage short of food. Disputes with Egypt, who banned Israel-bound shipping from the Suez Canal and blockaded the Gulf of Aqaba, pertained to the al-Auja Demilitarised Zone. Great Britain, along with the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily, sent ammunition and aid to the Maltese and Britain also sent her navy, which blockaded the islands. In the ensuing Battle of Gravelines the Spanish fleet was damaged and forced to abandon its rendezvous with Parma's army, who were blockaded in harbour by Dutch flyboats. War resumed in 1803 and Napoleon attempted to assemble a large enough fleet from the French and Spanish squadrons blockaded in various ports to cover an invasion of England. Alfred blockaded them but was unable to take Wareham by assault. World War III started on VJ Day as a cold war. It began to warm up when the Russians blockaded Berlin and nearly reached the exploding point in Korea. In foretime, due to empirical methods, it has been reported that work on blockaded wound dressing began since human observed a blister healed faster if left unbroken. Switzerland's trade was blockaded by both the Allies and by the Axis. The blockading nation typically establishes a blockaded area of water, but any ship can be inspected as soon as it is established that it is attempting to break the blockade. A close blockade entails placing warships within sight of the blockaded coast or port, to ensure the immediate interception of any ship entering or leaving. In the 20th century air power has also been used to enhance the effectiveness of the blockade by halting air traffic within the blockaded airspace. England can then be blockaded from Western France at close quarters by the Air Force, while the Navy with its submarines extend the range of the blockade. The Haitian president would have had little choice as the country, unknowingly to him, would have been blockaded by French ships if the exchange did not go the French way. Jitterbug Lift takes off with the opening shot of the Cold War in 1948, when the Soviet Union deprived Berliners of supplies, and blockaded access to the city. Examples from Classical Literature Her enemies had supposed that she was exhausted by the war, and our ships were blockaded at Mitylene. The State of Yucatan was not assisting in the war and did not need to be blockaded. It had been blockaded for months with its keel out of water. Their crime was high treason against Medina while it was blockaded. The Houses of Parliament were blockaded by the Spitalfields weavers. The Belgian ports were blockaded by the cruisers of Holland and Zealand. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of blockaded? Words that rhyme with blockaded What is the noun for blockaded? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words blockade block bloch's Bloch Bloc bloc blockaders blockade runner blockade-runner blockades blockading blockage 9-letter Words Starting With b bl blo bloc block blocka blockad blockade