Blockade in a sentence

As part of the blockade, the U.S. military was put on high alert to enforce the blockade and to be ready to invade Cuba at a moment's notice.

Continuous blockade of all major ports was sustained by North's overwhelming war production Economic impact Surdam argues that the blockade was a powerful weapon that eventually ruined the Southern economy, at the cost of few lives in combat.

Coulter, The Confederate States of America, p. 294. Confederates estimated that the Union Blockade interdicted no more than 10% of the cotton exported, but the Lincoln administration claimed one of every three blockade runners were being captured.

The Israeli Navy had no means of lifting the blockade due to the long range involved, and the Israeli Air Force, apparently also incapable of lifting the blockade, did not challenge it.

The Union blockade of the Confederacy led European powers to remain neutral, contrary to the Southern belief that a blockade would cut off the supply of cotton to Britain and other European nations and prompt them to intervene on behalf of the South.

Volumes of material have been written about the Blockade runners who evaded Union ships on blockade patrol, usually at night, and who moved cargo and mail in and out of the Confederate States throughout the course of the war.

When the blockade was announced, commercial shipping practically ended (the ships could not get insurance), and only a trickle of supplies came via blockade runners.

Alex Goodsir, 17, says students from as far as Perth and Adelaide were travelling to Newcastle to take part in the blockade.

All of us, like the delegations that have gone before us and the countless ones who will go after, returned to the US with a deeply held commitment to end our country’s blockade on the Cuban people.

And right now, the current C5 or complement treatments intravitreal are limited to every month or every two-month treatment because they don't last long enough and they don't provide complete blockade.

Another campaign promise that has not quite materialised at an international level is the naval blockade in the Mediterranean Sea, one that Meloni promised to enforce in order to prevent migrants from reaching European coasts.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian raised the “illegal blockade” with a group of members of the European Parliament at a meeting in Yerevan held on Tuesday.

Arrests were also made at the lengthy border blockade at Coutts, Alta., and at the six-day protest at Ambassador Bridge, in Windsor, Ont. Both shut down traffic at the U.S./Canada border.

A senior aide to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday blamed Stepanakert for the continuing blockade.

Aside from such direct Taiwanese-Chinese links, China’s relatively brief military exercises did a lot to point up the more general cost (to China and the world) of an invasion or a blockade.

A visit last August by then-House Speaker prompted Beijing to fire missiles into the Pacific and stage send its forces into a rehearsal of a blockade in the Taiwan Strait.

Before the war, Gaza's health system was overwhelmed by years of conflict and a border blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt in response to Hamas's takeover of the territory in 2007.

Bulloch enjoys some success, supplying the South with a number of blockade runners, war munitions, and commerce raiders.

Committee chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) warned that Tuberville's blockade would disrupt the military "at the highest levels," but some Republicans are cheering on the former college football coach from the sidelines.

Democrats at the time were frustrated with a Republican blockade of then-President Obama’s judicial nominees.