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Although some iron, steel, boilerplate, and machinery was smuggled through the blockade, the flow was meager and uncertain.
The blockade follows demonstrations and a week-long sit-in and hunger strike at the regional office.
In the Mediterranean and the narrow seas of Europe, aircraft took a leading part in the conduct of blockade.
In experiments that required autonomic blockade, cervical vagi were isolated in the neck.
He demanded their removal and imposed a naval blockade on the delivery of weapons to Cuba.
Throughout 1940 and 1941 the USA tightened an economic blockade of Japan which threatened to cut off most Japanese oil supplies.
The blockade meant that lorries attempting to enter or leave the factory were stopped from doing so.
The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade.
We don't think the economic blockade is going to produce a constructive and desirable result.
The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength.
The second major contribution of the blockade was that it prevented the South from exploiting its ability to set cotton prices.
However, several significant medical contraindications to beta blockade are present.
He was captured while running a blockade off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, and placed in an army prison at Point Lookout, Maryland.
Since his health had not completely returned and his education had not been completed he ran a blockade and went to Europe.
It is so desperate that they will risk running a blockade without any support since there is no other chance of their survival.
Fourthly, more and more foreigners used Beijing as their springboard to run a blockade to the third country.
Many ships carrying two or three Kingfishers operated in the South Atlantic, searching for subs and blockade runners.
Blockades of enemy ports during war time tend to develop that peculiar kind of person and ship, the blockade runners.
The Denbigh was the last blockade runner between Havana and Mobile to escape.
Pursuit of blockade runners often ran them aground, costing officers and crew the prize money awarded for captures.
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The blockade had to be broken, and Brownson was selected as the man to do it.
The debarkation at an end, the Brooklyn returned to her position on the blockade.
The British blockade had made the importation of niter from overseas impossible.
It remembered how the Government had hesitated, procrastinated, and vacillated in this so-called blockade, as in other matters.
Are we not officially notified that the French Leeward Islands are declared by proclamation in a state of blockade?
Do you expect my lords will send you through the Straits of Dover, to blockade the frith?
For even those writers who maintain the admissibility of pacific blockade assert that vessels of third States cannot be seized.
The Soviet effort to capture Berlin by blockade was thwarted by the courageous Allied airlift.
The winter settled after that with a beleaguering of steeps and broken levels under a blockade of stark hardship.
The Ben Nevis had sailed, and the worst she could do at present would be to run the blockade.
Besides which he established a blockade in front of the harbour when the weather permitted.
If the Syracusans succeeded in completing and holding this counterwork, the blockade of Syracuse would be rendered impossible.
The blockade had raised even the most simple articles to the price of luxuries.
That sundry vessels have broken the blockade is as palpable as that it was for some time most inefficiently conducted.
Our blockade clamps like a steel band, and presses tighter and tighter all the time.
The mountain-tops furnished no food, and the remains of the episcopal army stationed at mosso maintained a strict blockade.
Hundreds of dressed deodar logs had caught on a snag of rock, and the river was bringing down more logs every minute to complete the blockade.
Arica was also watched, and the blockade was extended north of Lima.
Then we will all have to get out or else be obliged to run the blockade.
The British Isles were declared to be in a state of blockade.
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