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The blockade of Cuba by the Americans was originally rationalized on the basis that the island nation was a threat to U.S national security.
George Bernard Shaw once said, "The British blockade won the war, but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it.
I suppose the enemy was no wiser.
" bloom The American government is believed to be considering a selective shipping blockade against North Korea to prevent the communist state from carrying out its threat to build nuclear weapons.
The United States has maintained an economic blockade of Cuba for almost forty years.
In the early 1800s, Napoleon proclaimed a blockade under which neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British.
The police had set up a blockade to keep demonstrators from entering the Legislative Buildings.
The police had set up a blockade to keep protestors from entering the Legislative Buildings.
On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on West Berlin, cutting off all land and rail routes into the Western sectors.
In April of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring a blockade of Southern ports from South Carolina to Texas.
There was nothing for it but to blockade the castle while sending after King Rene for assistance and authority.
The walls and defences, however, proved too strong for them, and Halil Aga therefore decided to blockade the city and summon the whole island to his assistance.
For similar reasons I made no allusion to the skirmishing plates upon the floor; or to the disreputable appearance of the castors, which were all at sixes and sevens, and looked drunk; or to the further blockade of Traddles by wandering vegetable dishes and jugs.
" The NYT and WP report that Chinese Embassy officials and visiting military advisers and scholars have hinted that the Chinese government is considering a blockade of some small Taiwan-controlled islands, a small air battle, or perhaps an incursion into Taiwanese waters to punish the nation for its recent talk of independence.
The latest escalation: Palestinian officials accused Israel of preparing commando attacks on Palestinian territory--including an assassination attempt on Yasser Arafat, according to a Palestinian mayor--and urged the United States to stop Israel's blockade of Bethlehem and its destruction of Palestinian houses.
Protestants called the British blockade a violation of their right to march.
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