Although some iron, steel, boilerplate, and machinery was smuggled through the blockade, the flow was meager and uncertain. |
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The blockade follows demonstrations and a week-long sit-in and hunger strike at the regional office. |
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In the Mediterranean and the narrow seas of Europe, aircraft took a leading part in the conduct of blockade. |
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In experiments that required autonomic blockade, cervical vagi were isolated in the neck. |
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He demanded their removal and imposed a naval blockade on the delivery of weapons to Cuba. |
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Throughout 1940 and 1941 the USA tightened an economic blockade of Japan which threatened to cut off most Japanese oil supplies. |
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The blockade meant that lorries attempting to enter or leave the factory were stopped from doing so. |
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The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade. |
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We don't think the economic blockade is going to produce a constructive and desirable result. |
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The Allies' plan was to strangle the German war economy by imposing a blockade while meanwhile building up their own military strength. |
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The second major contribution of the blockade was that it prevented the South from exploiting its ability to set cotton prices. |
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However, several significant medical contraindications to beta blockade are present. |
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He was captured while running a blockade off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, and placed in an army prison at Point Lookout, Maryland. |
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Since his health had not completely returned and his education had not been completed he ran a blockade and went to Europe. |
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It is so desperate that they will risk running a blockade without any support since there is no other chance of their survival. |
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Fourthly, more and more foreigners used Beijing as their springboard to run a blockade to the third country. |
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Many ships carrying two or three Kingfishers operated in the South Atlantic, searching for subs and blockade runners. |
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Blockades of enemy ports during war time tend to develop that peculiar kind of person and ship, the blockade runners. |
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The Denbigh was the last blockade runner between Havana and Mobile to escape. |
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Pursuit of blockade runners often ran them aground, costing officers and crew the prize money awarded for captures. |
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It would have been preferable to discard this possibility by more complete blockade of active sodium transport. |
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He saw the peaceful blockade being charged without warning by 20 mounted police. |
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Wooden-hulled ships known as dhows have been used to smuggle dates and oil past the international blockade. |
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Nine steel bollards, usually used to support the hulls of ships, blockade the yard's entrance. |
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An increasingly effective Union blockade reduced the availability of ships' machinery and even such items as nails and spikes. |
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The blockade caused chaos on the A59 as protesters, using D-locks, tripods and chains, closed and bolted the two side entrance gates. |
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It was obvious to everyone in Washington that the existing navy was unequal to the task of effective blockade. |
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Rio was immediately flooded with British manufactured goods that had been excluded from European markets by the Napoleonic blockade. |
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However, for a long time the residents showed a reluctance to lift the blockade. |
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Because the problem with dirt is that the media had imposed virtually an iron blockade when it came to the really personal stuff. |
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They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses. |
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Interestingly, blockade of this receptor not only seems to affect appetite, but also seems to help with cravings for nicotine. |
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The mechanism for this benefit is most likely a blockade of aldosterone receptors. |
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Union official Sylvain Nea said that the strike and blockade would be maintained until those who were dismissed are allowed to return to work. |
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How long are people prepared to be exposed to sufferings and privations caused by the blockade? |
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An aged, wooden blockade obstructed the pebbled road, so they had to park Raven's Ferrari in front of it and continue the travel on foot. |
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It's time for a policy of containment, which I hereby revise to include a blockade. |
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Intravascular volume depletion can also potentiate the hypotensive effect of beta blockade. |
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It produces an antifibrinolytic effect through the reversible blockade of lysine binding sites on plasminogen molecules. |
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One of the ironies of the Union naval blockade was that the North cut itself off from the supply of raw cotton. |
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The same process, involving distraints and blockade, may be used not only in pleas begun by writ, but also in pleas begun by gage and pledge. |
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He launched a scathing attack on both the EU and the Department of Marine in advance of tomorrow's blockade of fishing ports. |
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Superiority in coastal areas or maritime blockade should be seen as prerequisites of success in an operation. |
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Third, normally blockade takes the form of systematic naval military actions. |
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Both chronic VEGFR blockade and xenogeneic EC immunization in rats cause emphysema in rats without apparent damage to other organs. |
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The use of neostigmine to antagonise neuromuscular blockade may increase bowel motility and result in a higher rate of anastomotic leakage. |
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Many new anti-nuclear protesters were present, as well as long-term campaigners who were surprised with the success of the blockade. |
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Campaigners for a safe crossing patrol called off plans to blockade one of Lancaster's busiest roads when a lollipop woman came to the rescue. |
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But when the blockade is prolonged, inconveniencing thousands of motorists, one has to look askance at it. |
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Like a gorge of ice in a river, once the first obstructing block breaks loose, the whole mass begins to move and the blockade is gone. |
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Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them. |
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There is talk of landowners denying the armed forces access to their firing ranges and a blockade of London is mooted. |
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The blockade prevented about three to four ships, including tankers, from using the shipping lane, which is one of the busiest in the country. |
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The second mechanism of TCA cardiotoxicity involves the blockade of norepinephrine uptake at the adrenergic presynaptic endings. |
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Further, serotonin blockade prevents dopamine from increasing prolactin levels thereby relieving patients of the adverse effects of galactorrhea, amenorrhea, and gynecomastia. |
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Fifty-seven suspects trying to run a blockade were arrested on the ship. |
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The simmering social tensions reached boiling point when two young men were shot and killed after hundreds of workers were involved in a blockade of the city's major roads. |
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The Confederates might have opted to purchase and import naval supplies such as machinery and iron plating before the war and its attendant blockade. |
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On blockade duty individual captains could alter the watch routine by splitting the period from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M. into two 2-hour watch segments called dogwatches. |
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The last conflict between Britain and the USA began when the British blockade of Napoleonic Europe and naval impressment of American sailors inflamed relations. |
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The one exception to the blockade against animal fat is fish oil. |
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So they will actually be able to run a blockade if they come across one. |
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As a member of the negotiation team, I was on the police side of the blockade when scores of tear gas canisters and stun grenades were thrown into the crowd. |
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Its ports were so isolated they were unattractive even to blockade runners, and goods imported there took months to filter north to the heart of the Confederacy. |
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Following IVIG therapy in patients with ITP, platelet counts generally rise, apparently by Fc receptor blockade of splenic phagocytes and other reticuloendothelial cells. |
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The Union Navy's blockade impeded the flow of replacement parts, while forcing an over-reliance upon rail transport instead of coastal and river transport. |
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They imposed an economic blockade on the city, forcing people to queue for hours in the heat to enter or leave, and requiring them to show identification in English. |
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The new quarters are a former warehouse for the storage of windowpanes, a curious holdover from a time when the fear of a Communist blockade led to massive hoarding. |
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Protesters are planning two days of disruption this week to blockade roads, oil refineries and petrol depots unless the government gives in to their demand to cut fuel duty. |
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About 500 workers imposed a blockade on the factory on October 14 after being abruptly informed that the plant was closed and the workforce sacked. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced quickly Sunday, denouncing the economic blockade of the Donbas. |
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They crash a police blockade and outrun pursuers in a chase. |
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Ten merchant ships were used as armed merchant raiders, or auxiliary cruisers, and a few were employed as blockade runners between Japan and Germany. |
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In the 1914-18 conflict allied sea power facilitated the dismemberment of Germany's overseas empire and enforced a blockade of Germany and Austria-Hungary. |
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Merchants, mercenaries, pirates, blockade runners, and all sorts of travelers come through Nerlack Lunar Base daily, slipping unnoticed onboard a ship will not be difficult. |
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The protesters displayed antiwar banners and chanted antiwar slogans in front of policemen carrying rifles and a concrete blockade installed in street of the embassy compound. |
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Severe economic crisis, a blockade by US imperialism and the flight of most of China's capitalists to Taiwan and Hong Kong forced the CCP to nationalise most industries. |
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The effects of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor on the response to histamine were mimicked by vagotomy or selective nerve blockade with tetrodotoxin. |
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One would expect the effect of blockade on airways function to be rapid and indeed the risk ceases to be significant after the first year of exposure. |
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At 23 years old he has lived under the blockade for almost a third of his life and he is fed up. |
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The blue-water warships were generally unsuited for blockade duty, so the indirect approach represented by the privateers and commerce raiders failed to raise the blockade. |
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The blockade was removed and operations continued uninterrupted. |
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John Hadley builds his house in 1778 from the timbers of wrecked boats, while the British blockade the port and his wife, Coral, plants turnips and sweet peas. |
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Close patrol of hostile ports, in order to prevent naval forces from putting to sea, is also referred to as a blockade. |
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Sir Arthur Wilson noted the real threat of the time was blockade aided by mines and not invasion. |
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In 1861 President Lincoln instituted a naval blockade of Southern ports, which crippled the South's efforts to obtain war materiel from abroad. |
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A tight blockade was maintained on major French ports throughout 1759 under the command of Admiral Edward Hawke. |
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A British assault force landed on the island on 7 February, after which Nelson moved to intensify the blockade off Bastia. |
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This results in a conductance blockade of the spinothalamic sensory system, which in turn activates supraspinal pain-relieving centers. |
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These were forgotten and replaced by incessant controversies on tactics, strategy, gunnery, torpedo warfare, blockade, etc. |
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Blake maintained the blockade throughout the winter, the first time the fleet had stayed at sea over winter. |
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On 29 August 492, the Goths were about to assemble enough ships at Rimini to set up an effective blockade of Ravenna. |
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The naval blockade of the United States began informally in 1812 and expanded to cut off more ports as the war progressed. |
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Neurolytic phenol blockade of the obturator nerve for severe adductor spasticity. |
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An eight-month blockade from rebels seeking more autonomy for the region known as Cyrenaica cut Libya's oil export potential drastically. |
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Both Merck's MK-0893 and Eli Lilly's LY2409021 suppress glucagon action via receptor blockade. |
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Four years later it failed to vote against the US blockade of Cuba at the UN General Assembly which many MPLA veterans saw as an arch-betrayal. |
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The neurotoxins act presynaptically, initially releasing acetylcholine, followed by an interference with or blockade of its release. |
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It was also to isolate the UK and damage war production, beginning an effective blockade. |
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Their strategy for blockade was to destroy ports and storage facilities in towns and cities. |
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Third, and unlike the Allies, the Germans were never able to mount a comprehensive blockade of Britain. |
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Meanwhile, the long British naval blockade of French ports had sapped the morale of the French populace. |
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The blockade seriously undermined the Russian export economy and helped shorten the war. |
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After the Uqair conference, Kuwait was still subjected to a Saudi economic blockade and intermittent Saudi raiding. |
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In 1775, it declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion and enforced a blockade of the colony. |
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The naval blockade, however, was relatively weak, and the British were able to resupply the garrison. |
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On 16 January 1780, the Royal Navy under George Rodney scored a major victory over the Spanish, weakening the naval blockade of Gibraltar. |
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After hostilities with the Dutch began in late 1780, Britain had moved quickly, enforcing a blockade across the North Sea. |
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Rather than focusing on punitive expeditions as favoured by his father, the young Prince Henry adopted a strategy of economic blockade. |
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The Royal Navy Submarine Service was used primarily in the classic Axis blockade. |
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The German goal of significantly weakening the British Navy by sinking a large part of it and ending the blockade was not achieved. |
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Britain's larger fleet could maintain a blockade of Germany, cutting it off from overseas trade and resources. |
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While Germany was strangled by Britain's blockade, Britain, as an island nation, was heavily dependent on resources imported by sea. |
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This formed part of a larger strategy to break the British blockade of Germany and to allow German naval vessels access to the Atlantic. |
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Of the ships that succeeded in breaking through the blockade, many were severely damaged. |
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In summer 1759, the French Toulon fleet under Admiral La Clue slipped through the blockade and sailed out through the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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During 1759, the British, under Hawke, maintained a close blockade on the French coast in the vicinity of Brest. |
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The main French ships of the line had been kept in harbour for years by the British blockade with only brief sorties. |
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A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally. |
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A blockade should not be confused with an embargo or sanctions, which are legal barriers to trade. |
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It is also distinct from a siege in that a blockade is usually directed at an entire country or region, rather than a fortress or city. |
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While most blockades historically took place at sea, blockade is still used on land to prevent someone coming into a certain area. |
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The German government maintained the British naval blockade was illegal under international law. |
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When coastal cities or fortresses were besieged from the landward side, the besiegers would often blockade the seaward side as well. |
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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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Julian Corbett and Admiral Mahan emphasized that naval operations were chiefly to be won by decisive battles and blockade. |
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It is both the most effective and the most difficult form of blockade to implement. |
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In a distant blockade, the blockaders stay well away from the blockaded coast and try to intercept any ships going in or out. |
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The object of loose blockade is to lure the enemy into venturing out but to stay close enough to strike. |
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Whether or not a blockade was seen as lawful depended on the laws of the nations whose trade was influenced by the blockade. |
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The Soviet Union attempted to suppress the secession by imposing an economic blockade. |
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Scott argued that a Union blockade of the main ports would weaken the Confederate economy. |
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Surdam argues that the blockade was a powerful weapon that eventually ruined the Southern economy, at the cost of few lives in combat. |
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Southern leaders needed to get European powers to help break up the blockade the Union had created around the Southern ports and cities. |
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During the war the British had instituted a new system of blockade, by which they penned in the main French fleets at anchor in Brest and Toulon. |
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Almost immediately, British ships under Admiral Charles Saunders moved to blockade Cadiz one of the most important Spanish naval bases. |
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Antony's fleet sailed through the bay of Actium on the western coast of Greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade. |
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German ships were all about, however, until the British blockade of Germany stopped that when the war began in September. |
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Succinylcholine, commonly used for neuromuscular blockade, can cause PORML with or without features of malignant hyperthermia. |
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De Mello detached two armed craft to return to Duarte Coelho and escort him, but could not breach the Chinese blockade. |
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Fourteen days after arriving on the Pearl river delta, the Portuguese weighted anchor and prepared to run the Chinese blockade. |
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Yermak, despite having limited supplies, was able to endure the blockade for three months. |
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It failed to have any effect and in October, Bern decided to withdraw the blockade. |
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The British made the situation much worse by imposing a tight blockade on every American port, which cut off almost all imports and exports. |
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An embargo, a severe form of externally imposed isolation, is a blockade of all trade by one country on another. |
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In May 1949, Stalin lifted the blockade, permitting the resumption of Western shipments to Berlin. |
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Many of these new treatments work through immune checkpoint blockade, disrupting cancer's ability to evade the immune system. |
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To man the blockade, Britain impressed American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy. |
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The blockade of American ports later tightened to the extent that most American merchant ships and naval vessels were confined to port. |
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As the Royal Navy base that supervised the blockade, Halifax profited greatly during the war. |
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The increased taxes, the British blockade, and the occupation of some of New England by enemy forces also agitated public opinion in the states. |
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She waged war against the Germans, resulting in a trade blockade and higher taxation on Norwegians, which resulted in a rebellion. |
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The Napoleonic Wars sent Norway into an economic crisis, as nearly all the merchants had gone bankrupt during the blockade. |
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A blockade would have rapidly cut off Pakistan from oil supplies. |
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Those are both more than double the numbers from before the blockade. |
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President Kennedy imposed a naval blockade on Cuba to prevent delivery of the missiles and called on his allies for support. |
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The English did not attempt a winter blockade, but contented themselves with destroying all the supplies in the district. |
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Upon entering the war, the Navy had immediately established a blockade of Germany. |
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The Union blockade of southern ports stopped the supply of cotton to textile mills in France, and caused unemployment. |
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However, the British blockade virtually ended overseas and colonial trade, hurting the port cities and their supply chains. |
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The British quickly enforced a naval blockade of France to starve it of resources. |
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In terms of economic damage to Great Britain, the blockade was largely ineffective. |
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Nelson arrived off Toulon in July 1803 and spent the next year and a half enforcing the blockade. |
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The Western Allies also began a naval blockade of Germany, which aimed to damage the country's economy and war effort. |
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Work on building a new fourth platform commenced in early 2014 with a blockade required in February 2015 to allow completion. |
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At the beginning of the war he urged a naval blockade, which would quickly damage the colonists' trading activities. |
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The naval war also continued, with the United Kingdom maintaining a blockade of France by sea. |
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Soon after the outbreak of hostilities, Britain began a naval blockade of Germany. |
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From the start of the war, a British blockade on shipments to Germany affected the Reich economy. |
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Thirdly, they were to blockade imports, bombing harbours and stores of supplies. |
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The authors correctly state that patients with myotonic dystrophy or dystrophia myotonica are at increased risk of residual neuromuscular blockade. |
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The blockade shut down the ten Confederate seaports with railheads that moved almost all the cotton, especially New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston. |
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We report room-temperature Coulomb blockade in a single layer graphene three-terminal single-electron transistor fabricated using feedback-controlled electroburning. |
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During the Bishop's Wars the king attempted to blockade Scotland and planned amphibious assaults from England on the East coast and from Ireland to the West. |
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More significantly, the British blockade of the Atlantic coast caused the majority warships to be unable to put to sea and devastated the United States economy. |
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The British blockade further damaged the American economy by forcing merchants to abandon the cheap and fast coastal trade to the slow and more expensive inland roads. |
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As well as closing off the Imperial German Navy's access to the Atlantic, the blockade largely blocked neutral merchant shipping heading to or from Germany. |
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The blockade was maintained during the eight months after the armistice was agreed to force Germany to end the war and sign the Treaty of Versailles. |
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On his arrival, Nelson was given command of a small squadron consisting of Agamemnon, three frigates and a sloop, and ordered to blockade the French garrison on Corsica. |
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During the first week of November a westerly gale came up and, after three days, the ships of Hawke's blockade were forced to run for Torbay on the south coast of England. |
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During the course of the war, the British imposed a naval blockade on France, which affected trade and kept the French from fully mobilising their naval resources. |
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When he tried to break free of the British blockade in November, he was run down and attacked by the British under Admiral Hawke at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. |
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The success of the Russian army on the land forced Sweden to sign peace treaties with Russia in 1809 and with France in 1810 and to join the blockade against Britain. |
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Nelson hurried there to oversee the evacuation of British nationals and transported them to Corsica, after which Jervis ordered him to blockade the newly captured French port. |
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Orders arrived from the Admiralty to blockade the French forces in Alexandria and Malta, a task Nelson delegated to his captains, Samuel Hood and Alexander Ball. |
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He joined her at Portsmouth, where he received orders to sail to Malta and take command of a squadron there before joining the blockade of Toulon. |
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During the period of blockade off the coast of Spain in October, Nelson instructed his captains, over two dinners aboard Victory, on his plan for the approaching battle. |
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Rather than storming the city, the Wehrmacht was ordered to blockade Leningrad so as to starve the city to death, while attacking it with bombers and artillery. |
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A line of 324 tractor-trailers has formed at Kulata at 2 pm Tuesday and there is no information when the blockade might be lifted, even temporarily. |
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Raeder met Hitler on 21 May 1940 and raised the topic of invasion, but warned of the risks and expressed a preference for blockade by air, submarines and raiders. |
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Tracheal responsiveness to both isoprenaline and beta2-adrenoreceptor blockade by propranolol in cigarette smoke exposed and sensitized guinea pigs. |
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Parliament then voted to impose a blockade against the Thirteen Colonies. |
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Alaric lifted his blockade after proclaiming Attalus Western Emperor. |
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In each case many of the local planters and merchants welcomed the invasion, as it ended Britain's naval blockade and restored their access to international trade. |
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The World War I Adriatic Campaign was largely limited to blockade attempts by the Allies and the effort of the Central Powers to thwart the British, French and Italian moves. |
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The British naval blockade began to have a serious impact on Germany. |
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The Germans employed the Haber process of nitrogen fixation to provide their forces with a constant supply of gunpowder despite the British naval blockade. |
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During the American Civil War, Confederate blockade runners used anthracite as a smokeless fuel for their boilers to avoid giving away their position to the blockaders. |
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In July 1940, the air and sea blockade began with the Luftwaffe mainly targeting coastal shipping convoys, ports and shipping centres, such as Portsmouth. |
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England can then be blockaded from Western France at close quarters by the Air Force, while the Navy with its submarines extend the range of the blockade. |
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In the 20th century air power has also been used to enhance the effectiveness of the blockade by halting air traffic within the blockaded airspace. |
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In fact, with clever utilization of resources and a mammoth shipbuilding program, the Union managed to steadily increase the blockade throughout the war. |
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Hitler first discussed the idea at a 21 May 1940 meeting with Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who stressed the difficulties and his own preference for a blockade. |
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Napoleon himself slipped through the British blockade in October 1799, returning to Paris, where he overthrew the government and made himself the ruler. |
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With the outbreak of war, the British and French immediately began a blockade of Germany, although this had little immediate effect on German industry. |
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The Miguelite fleet continued however to blockade the island. |
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Combined androgen blockade with leuprorelin and bicalutamide was started. |
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A close blockade entails placing warships within sight of the blockaded coast or port, to ensure the immediate interception of any ship entering or leaving. |
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After two weeks without being able to gain a foothold in China they decided to run the blockade and managed to escape with the loss of two ships and several dozen men. |
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Germany had to import most of its iron, rubber, oil, bauxite, copper and nickel, making naval blockade a devastating weapon against the German economy. |
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With the abdication of Napoleon, the blockade of France ended and the British ceased impressment, rendering the issue of the impressment of American sailors moot. |
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The British commander General Francis de Rottenberg did not have the strength to retake Fort George, so he build a blockade, hoping to starve the Americans into surrender. |
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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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Local anaesthetics cause reversible blockade of impulse propagation along the nerve fibres by preventing the influx of sodium ions through the cell membrane of the fibres. |
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Some other examples are the perimeter blockade by human chain at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the blockade of the Franklin River dam site, and the Keystone Pipeline. |
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In the end Wales was defeated militarily by the improved ability of the English navy to blockade or seize areas essential for agricultural production such as Anglesey. |
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Residents of Bansko, Razlog and Dobrinishte southwestern resorts have staged a blockade of E 79 in support of a proposed construction of a new ski lift in Pirin National Park. |
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The battle was a part of the effort of the Confederate States of America to break the Union Naval blockade, which had cut off Virginia from all international trade. |
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Due to its numerical advantage in dreadnoughts, the Grand Fleet obtained Naval superiority and was able to establish a sea blockade of Germany's coast. |
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The goal of the blockade was to deny Germany access to maritime trade including war materials and to guarantee the undisturbed ferrying of British troops. |
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Others believed that, to avoid the Carthaginian blockade, he may have stuck close to land and sailed only at night, or taken advantage of a temporary lapse in the blockade. |
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In the final Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653 Tromp was killed, a blow to Dutch morale, but the English had to end their blockade of the Dutch coast. |
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In March, the charismatic Vice Admiral Makarov had taken command of the First Russian Pacific Squadron with the intention of breaking out of the Port Arthur blockade. |
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They then returned to Detroit, leaving two gunboats to blockade Mackinac. |
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Britain strove to maintain the blockade and, if possible, to damage the German fleet enough to remove the threat to the islands and free the Grand Fleet for use elsewhere. |
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In May 1531, Zurich reluctantly agreed to impose a food blockade. |
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For the rest of the war, naval action consisted almost entirely in submarine combat by the Austrians and Germans and blockade duty by the triple entente. |
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