| Protesters responded by blockading the streets, piling rocks and logs onto roads. |
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| Beyond the river was a solid wall of soldiery, completely blockading the ford. |
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| The Federal ships blockading the port closed as near as they dared and managed to shoot a cannon ball through the Denbigh's wheelhouse. |
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| Police arrested eight protesters blockading the road outside the consulate. |
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| The frigates easily outgunned the pirates but had trouble blockading their swift, shore-hugging xebecs. |
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| Banning parties and blockading raves will not stop a movement, nor will it stop the use of ecstasy, cocaine, speed, heroin and pot for that matter. |
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| The Rainbow Warrior had been blockading the military port until police boarded the ship on Saturday night and cut her anchor chain forcing the ship into dock. |
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| Asked one onlooker motioning toward the crush of people blockading every clothes rack. |
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| For weeks, locals had been blockading the highway through the town, demanding that Mr Robles quit over alleged embezzlement. |
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| The means of blockading action by a trade union falls within the objective of protecting workers. |
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| The government whip said today that the party did produce it and suggested that it was for blockading or obstructing committees. |
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| You quite often hear about the Innu people protesting, blockading and so forth. |
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| In this way, the unanimity principle has shown itself to be a blockading instrument of the first order. |
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| Today, throughout France, desperate fishermen are blockading ports because they no longer believe they have a future. |
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| Following the failure of the Swedish negotiations, the Swedish trade unions took action by blockading the construction site. |
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| Now Russia is blockading all food imports from the European Union at most border crossing points. |
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| First Nations were blockading roads and rail lines in Ontario and British Columbia. |
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| Quiet residential streets along the march route in the university and Chinatown areas had phalanxes of police blockading them. |
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| French wines were in short supply following Britain's declaration of war on France in 1678 and the subsequent blockading of French ports. |
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| Those charged are accused of blockading the lone road into the reserve and intimidating the community to the point where 400 members felt the need to flee. |
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| Athens parlayed its fleet into a maritime empire, blockading and starving any subjects that defied her will. |
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| A neutral ship must obey a request to stop for inspection from the blockading nation. |
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| Early in 1805, Vice Admiral Lord Nelson commanded the British fleet blockading Toulon. |
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| Paramilitaries were also denounced for blockading food, medicines and fuel and for restricting the movements of persons, thereby seriously affecting the civilian population, causing forced displacements and looting. |
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| Hawke took command of the blockading fleet off Brest and extended the blockade of the French coast from Dunkirk to Marseilles. |
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| It began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production. |
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| The only force to have really played its game well, the Russian Navy, perfectly carried out its mission of blockading the coast in the area of conflict. |
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| Britain exploited these divisions, blockading only southern ports for much of the war and encouraging smuggling. |
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| In January 1815, Admiral Cockburn succeeded in blockading the southeastern coast by occupying Camden County, Georgia. |
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| Thousands of Indigenous people had been peacefully blockading the road for over 50 days in protest against new legislation which they claim poses a threat to their livelihood. |
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| On 21 June, the Maoists escalated the protests, blockading government buildings, and clashes between UCPN-M cadres and the security forces were reported in Kathmandu and several other locations. |
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| The blockading nation is free to select anything else as contraband in a list, which it must publish. |
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| Since April 2009, as a result of the the Iraqi forces blockading the Camp, the civilian and disarmed population of Ashraf have faced mounting problems in obtaining supplies of the most basic necessities. |
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| For forty days, they had been blockading the path of a ball mill being sent to process ore at Canadian mining company Glamis Gold's Marlin mine in the WesternHighlands. |
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| In practice runs and attempts to attack blockading Union warships, it went to the bottom three times with great loss of life including that of Hunley himself. |
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| In April 1914, the UVF assisted with the landing of 30,000 German rifles with 3,000,000 rounds at Larne by blockading authorities. |
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| If the situation so demands, the blockading nation can request that the ship divert to a known place or harbour for inspection. |
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| The French decided to launch the invasion force entirely from Le Havre, a large harbour some distance from the blockading British fleet at Brest. |
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| Ships are blockading Yemeni ports to stop arms deliveries. |
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| 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. |
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| Tromp was mostly occupied with blockading the privateer port of Dunkirk. |
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| The French fleet blockades Lisbon and tries to attack the rearguard of the Miguelite Navy that was blockading Terceira, but obtains limited success. |
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| In 1814 the British began blockading the United States, and brought the American economy to near bankruptcy, forcing it to rely on loans for the rest of the war. |
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| Over 200 American privateer ships were captured by the Royal Navy, many of which were turned on their former owners and used by the British blockading forces. |
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| San Martin settled in Huacho on 12 November, where he established his headquarters while Cochrane sailed north blockading the port of Callao in Lima. |
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