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How to use the word blockade in a Sentence?

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As is always the case with PLA exercises in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea areas, Beijing is telling the United States, regional countries, Taiwan Island and its own people, that the PLA has the capability to conduct blockade and joint air and missile strikes on targets in and around Taiwan Island.

United States

Found on CNN
11 months ago

There’s been shoot on sight orders (at the border) that were put in place in August 2020 … a blockade on travel and trade, which has included what very limited official trade (there was before).

Lina Yoon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The official announcement( of the blockade) refers to just a few days, which would make it hard to qualify it on practical terms to a blockade, blockades are hard to execute and long to implement. This exercise is not that.

Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm aware that there are political groups in the US that are committed to confrontation, that would like to hold the people of Latin America and the Caribbean hostage, as is the case of the blockade against Cuba, which is highly promoted by Cuban politicians who have a lot of influence in the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but I consider the blockade inappropriate, and inhumane(...) an entire people can not suffer for the interest of a group, so the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador government must decide on this because it is a matter of human rights, which has to do with sovereignty.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was no – there was never a blockade in Ottawa. The word 'blockade' is a charged word, at the border, in other places in Canada, there were things that could be legitimately characterized as a blockade. They were preventing supply chain and movement of people and goods. The protests in Ottawa, for the most part, every road that was jammed up with trucks left a lane of traffic to allow emergency vehicles and other people to navigate the city.

David Anber

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens' daily lives. It has to stop, it's clear these disruptions have broadened in scope beyond the vaccine requirement implementation.

Justin Trudeau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens' daily lives. It has to stop.

Justin Trudeau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens' daily lives. It has to stop.

Justin Trudeau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This kind of conduct is totally unacceptable, assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply doing their job to maintain public safety and the rule of law is completely unacceptable and without hesitation I condemn those actions, and I call for calm amongst anybody who feels sympathetic to those engaged in this blockade, please stay away from the area, please do not further intensify an already difficult situation.

Jason Kenney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He could blockade the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, he could launch a full-throttle assault on Kyiv, which we would obviously see. He could also use his Spetsnaz guys, special forces guys — and they're inside Ukraine already — to topple this Zelensky government. That's also an option.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once again, the Senate Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing issue.

Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The recent admission by the Department of Defense that The United States companies are still authorized to maintain Saudi warplanes, means that our government is still enabling offensive Saudi operations in Yemen, including bombings and enforcing an inhumane blockade on Yemen's ports, the administration must use its existing authority to block The United States civilian contractors from aiding the Saudi war effort, before more Yemenis are plunged into famine.

The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to move forward with investments, with wealth creation, with new partnerships. The anti-blockade law allows all that. Let’s do it in this new phase.

Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Everyone is very nervous and apprehensive about making sure their ballots get back. I think it raises the level of stress. Voting from abroad requires forms that you fill in, et cetera, and sometimes it can feel like a natural blockade.

Julia Bryan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To date, most children affected have done well. Treatments have included anticoagulation, IV immunoglobulin, IL-1 or IL-6 blockade, and corticosteroids. Some children have only needed supportive care.

Boston Children Hospital

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is not the outcome we wanted. We have made exceptional efforts to resolve this blockade through engagement and dialogue.

Coastal GasLink President David Pfeiffer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What is going to break is the blockade of a progressive government democratically elected by the Spanish people.

Pedro Sanchez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're going to move to the public phase of the investigation because America needs to hear from these witnesses themselves, the president is actively obstructing our investigation by trying to blockade the witnesses. That in itself becomes evidence of obstruction.

Jamie Raskin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the middle of the hardening of the blockade on Cuba, the activation of Title III of Helms-Burton by the president of the United States, were assuming responsibility for injecting foreign exchange and developing the economy.

Ivis Fernndez

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Any armed intervention wont solve social, or political, problems, i salute the resistance of the Venezuelan people, despite the economic blockade, the energy blackouts, the threats of intervention.

Evo Morales

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We view a blockade on Venezuelan imports as low probability and a last resort measure that is likely weeks if not months away should it materialize, the evolving situation in Venezuela appears capable of delaying our expected test of $50 support.

Jim Ritterbusch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When the blockade happened they (Qatar) had no presence on the Hill.

Joey Allaham

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They've been extremely welcoming for Turkish companies after the blockade.

Serkan Ucar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is now for the U.S. to cut through this blockade.

Thomas Ruttig

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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