blockade
Example Sentences
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“As the blockade is lifted, production will rebound,” said Smith.
From MarketWatch
U.N. security experts said the operation, along with the strikes and blockade of Venezuela, “are contrary to international and humanitarian law.”
From Salon
The 50 million barrels from Venezuela, however, likely came from existing Venezuelan stockpiles, which have been building since the U.S. began its blockade of exports from the area late last year.
From Barron's
Earlier this year, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a major geopolitics think tank in Washington, D.C., looked in depth at what would happen if China instead simply decided to blockade Taiwan.
From MarketWatch
She was one of only three Senate Democrats who never joined her party’s blockade against a stopgap spending bill—along with King and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman.
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