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How To Use blockaded In A Sentence

• Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
• The river blockaded the spread of the forest fire.
• They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
• The courts, however, decided that a port so little guarded as Wilmington was at that time could not be legally called blockaded, and the brig was therefore released. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
• Litigator London: are you asserting a blockading power can only stop a vessel in territorial waters; and that vessel being stopped has to be flagged by the blockaded entity? The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
• They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
• They blockaded the Suez Canal in violation of international agreement.
• Shipping lines have been avoiding the southern ports in fear of having their vessels blockaded.
• Ricardo himself fled before the place was completely blockaded.
• 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.