blockade

Example Sentences

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While traffic has almost returned to normal, some petrol stations that closed at the start of the blockade have not yet reopened, AFP journalists reported.

From Barron's

"Today we are proud to announce that we have broken through that blockade, we have survived!"

From Reuters

The judge noted that they had joined a blockade in March hours after being sentenced in a previous case.

From Seattle Times

“We don’t have enough food. People eat what they get,” a resident of Pama, a town in the east that has been under blockade for more than a year told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times

But attacks are intensifying and spreading as jihadis blockade villages, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from moving freely.

From Seattle Times