blocade造句

• The government, which came to power last year, partially lifted an economic blocade imposed by the earlier regime.
• During the American Civil War, blocade runners used Pungoteague Creek and other nearby waterways to get supplies to the Confederacy despite the Union blockade at Hampton Roads.
• "All these accomplishments merit great importance if one takes into account that they occurred under the economic blocade imposed on Cuba by the United States since 1959, " the news agency said.
• When they failed to counter the Ottoman Navy, it was able to resupply the isolated Ottoman garrisons and land reinforcements from the Ottoman Empire's provinces, theatening to crush the rebellion; likewise the failure of the Greek fleet to break the naval blocade of Missolonghi ( as it did several times earlier ) in 1826 led to the fall of the city.
• A . C . Hobart ( later known as Hobart Pasha ) while running the blocade in 1863 & stopping over in Nassau, declared ironically he was carrying in the holds of his steamer " Don " : " " one thousand pairs of stays . . . . five hundred boxes of Cockle's pills, and a quantity of toothbrushes " ".