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They could not get weapons past the naval blockade.blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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You've done so in spite of threats--the Soviet attempts to impose the East-mark, the blockade. (source)
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The Yankee blockade about the Confederate ports had tightened, and luxuries such as tea, coffee, silks, whalebone stays, colognes, fashion magazines and books were scarce and dear. (source)blockade = war measure that prevents transfer of goods
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It had quickly become obvious that they wouldn't be able to maintain over five hundred different blockades or fend off the massive influx of gunters.† (source)blockades = keeps people and goods from reaching a location
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White neighborhoods in Baltimore blockaded their streets, attempting to confine the damage of the Riots to its poorer, darker jurisdictions.† (source)blockaded = kept people and goods from reaching a location
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He said, "As Mrs. Washington was unwilling to leave me surrounded by the malignant fever which prevailed, I could not think of hazarding her and the Children any longer by my continuance in the city, the house in which we lived being, in a manner, blockaded, by the disorder."† (source)
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Everyone else surely felt the same, but turnips were the only vegetable available now with the British naval blockade.† (source)blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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A skilled strategist like Sharmak could have blockaded us out here on this barren, stony point, and we'd have needed to kill a lot of guys to get out.† (source)blockaded = kept people and goods from reaching a location
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Caught on the flank, by the Rue SaintPierre-aux-Boeufs, and in the rear through the Rue du Parvis, driven to bay against Notre-Dame, which they still assailed and Quasimodo defended, at the same time besiegers and besieged, they were in the singular situation in which Comte Henri Harcourt, ~Taurinum obsessor idem et obsessus~, as his epitaph says, found himself later on, at the famous siege of Turin, in 1640, between Prince Thomas of Savoy, whom he was besieging, and the Marquis de Leganez, who was blockading him.† (source)blockading = keeping people and goods from reaching a location
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First you had to visit neighbours, listen to their troubles and complaints, and thus find out what was going on in the city today: were there raids, had they heard of any blockades, was Chlodna Street guarded?† (source)blockades = keeps people and goods from reaching a location
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Six hundred heads turned slowly from side to side, looking at the blockade of teachers on either side of the gym.† (source)blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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"The trolls will almost certainly have blockaded the harbor," said Aven.† (source)blockaded = kept people and goods from reaching a location
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Blockading is a business with me and I'm making money out of it.† (source)Blockading = keeping people and goods from reaching a location
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Blockades and carpet-bombing were quickly ruled out: Clearly, the malignant Japanese war machine would capitulate only to direct and cataclysmic force.† (source)Blockades = keeps people and goods from reaching a location
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Jimmy didn't answer, because now they were looking at the blockade of the Happicuppa head-office compound in Maryland.† (source)blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
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The police had actually blockaded the street, and the crowd outside the hotel was growing quickly.† (source)blockaded = kept people and goods from reaching a location
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