Blockade
noun
An act to stop goods or people from moving into or out of a place.
The enemy forces initiated a blockade to prevent any supplies from reaching the city.
Often appears as...
- enforce a blockade
- lift a blockade
noun
A barrier or obstacle that prevents movement or access.
They set up a blockade at the end of the road to prevent anyone from leaving.
Often appears as...
- road blockade
- set up a blockade
verb
To obstruct or stop movement or access by setting up a blockade.
The protestors blockaded the city center, causing massive traffic jams.
Often appears as...
- blockade a road
- blockade an area
noun
An act to stop goods or people from moving into or out of a place.
The enemy forces initiated a blockade to prevent any supplies from reaching the city.
Often appears as...
- enforce a blockade
- lift a blockade
noun
A barrier or obstacle that prevents movement or access.
They set up a blockade at the end of the road to prevent anyone from leaving.
Often appears as...
- road blockade
- set up a blockade
verb
To obstruct or stop movement or access by setting up a blockade.
The protestors blockaded the city center, causing massive traffic jams.
Often appears as...
- blockade a road
- blockade an area
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3War Tactics
Blockade as a strategy is often used in military contexts, typically during war.
The naval blockade crippled the enemy's supply lines.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Pressure
Blockades can be economic sanctions intended to pressure a country or region.
The international blockade was imposed to force policy changes.
Pro Tip 3/3Duration
Blockades often imply a sustained effort over a period of time rather than a one-off event.
The blockade lasted several months.
Pro Tip 1/3War Tactics
Blockade as a strategy is often used in military contexts, typically during war.
The naval blockade crippled the enemy's supply lines.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Pressure
Blockades can be economic sanctions intended to pressure a country or region.
The international blockade was imposed to force policy changes.
Pro Tip 3/3Duration
Blockades often imply a sustained effort over a period of time rather than a one-off event.
The blockade lasted several months.
Pro Tip 1/3War Tactics
Blockade as a strategy is often used in military contexts, typically during war.
The naval blockade crippled the enemy's supply lines.
Pro Tip 2/3Economic Pressure
Blockades can be economic sanctions intended to pressure a country or region.
The international blockade was imposed to force policy changes.
Pro Tip 3/3Duration
Blockades often imply a sustained effort over a period of time rather than a one-off event.
The blockade lasted several months.
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Underwater on Bermuda’s...
debris from the constellation is washed right through the center of this shipwreck so you have a very confounding set of artifacts you have some from the 20th century and some from the 19th century everything's that are rolled into one it's a really historically relevant shipwreck it was part of the fleet of these blockade runners that ran very quickly to feed the Confederate
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The most successful...
captured a Portuguese brig, and blockaded a tribute mission from Thailand —all in a single day. But perhaps Madame Zheng’s greatest success lay in knowing when to quit. By 1810, increasing tension between the Red and Black Flag Fleets weakened the confederation from within and rendered it more vulnerable to attack from without.
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Rob Forbes: Ways of...
you don't see our logos and brands and names, and therefore you're alert to things physically. And this is a great protection of a pedestrian zone, and the repurposing of some colonial cannons to do that. And Cuba needs to be far more resourceful, because of the blockades and things, but a really wonderful playground.
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Robert Wright: The...
I think politicians can help foster non-zero-sum relationships, Economic engagement is generally better than blockades and so on, in this regard. And politicians can be aware, and should be aware that, when people around the world are looking at them,
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Norman Spack: How I help...
Nicole is on pubertal blockade in here, and Jonas is just going -- biologic control. This is what Nicole would look like if we weren't doing what we were doing. He's got a prominent Adam's apple. He's got angular bones to the face, a mustache,
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Tzeporah Berman: The bad...
I've advised multiple governments on climate policy, I’ve been arrested on the blockades, and I've negotiated in the boardrooms of some of the largest banks and corporations in the world. And when I figured out that we don't have a framework
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History vs. Napoleon...
and all he knew was fighting. He tried to enforce a European-wide blockade of Britain, invaded any country that didn't comply, and launched more wars to hold onto his gains. And what was the result? Millions dead all over the continent,
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The history of the Cuban...
There was just one a naval blockade was considered an act of war. Although the President called it a quarantine that did not block basic necessities, the Soviets didn't appreciate the distinction. In an outraged letter to Kennedy,
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Annie Murphy Paul: What...
the darkest days of World War II, German troops blockaded Western Holland, turning away all shipments of food. The opening of the Nazi's siege was followed by one of the harshest winters in decades --
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Tiny Penguins Fight Off...
Penguins nest site crossing the blockade won't be easy
Video examples
Underwater on Bermuda’s...
debris from the constellation is washed right through the center of this shipwreck so you have a very confounding set of artifacts you have some from the 20th century and some from the 19th century everything's that are rolled into one it's a really historically relevant shipwreck it was part of the fleet of these blockade runners that ran very quickly to feed the Confederate
Video examples
The most successful...
captured a Portuguese brig, and blockaded a tribute mission from Thailand —all in a single day. But perhaps Madame Zheng’s greatest success lay in knowing when to quit. By 1810, increasing tension between the Red and Black Flag Fleets weakened the confederation from within and rendered it more vulnerable to attack from without.
Video examples
Rob Forbes: Ways of...
you don't see our logos and brands and names, and therefore you're alert to things physically. And this is a great protection of a pedestrian zone, and the repurposing of some colonial cannons to do that. And Cuba needs to be far more resourceful, because of the blockades and things, but a really wonderful playground.
Video examples
Robert Wright: The...
I think politicians can help foster non-zero-sum relationships, Economic engagement is generally better than blockades and so on, in this regard. And politicians can be aware, and should be aware that, when people around the world are looking at them,
Video examples
Norman Spack: How I help...
Nicole is on pubertal blockade in here, and Jonas is just going -- biologic control. This is what Nicole would look like if we weren't doing what we were doing. He's got a prominent Adam's apple. He's got angular bones to the face, a mustache,
Video examples
Tzeporah Berman: The bad...
I've advised multiple governments on climate policy, I’ve been arrested on the blockades, and I've negotiated in the boardrooms of some of the largest banks and corporations in the world. And when I figured out that we don't have a framework
Video examples
History vs. Napoleon...
and all he knew was fighting. He tried to enforce a European-wide blockade of Britain, invaded any country that didn't comply, and launched more wars to hold onto his gains. And what was the result? Millions dead all over the continent,
Video examples
The history of the Cuban...
There was just one a naval blockade was considered an act of war. Although the President called it a quarantine that did not block basic necessities, the Soviets didn't appreciate the distinction. In an outraged letter to Kennedy,
Video examples
Annie Murphy Paul: What...
the darkest days of World War II, German troops blockaded Western Holland, turning away all shipments of food. The opening of the Nazi's siege was followed by one of the harshest winters in decades --
Video examples
Tiny Penguins Fight Off...
Penguins nest site crossing the blockade won't be easy
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.
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Martin Heidegger
German Philosopher
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
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J. Anthony Lukas
American Journalist
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
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Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.
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Jeremy Corbyn
British Politician
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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Ralph Merkle
American Scientist
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
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Adam McKay
American Writer
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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Len Buckeridge
Australian Businessman
Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
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Robert Del Naja
British Artist
If the EU and the US pressured Israel for change and forced the end of the blockade, we might get somewhere. That pressure should also come culturally, with from without and within.
Quote examples
Sloane Crosley
American Writer
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.
Quote examples
Martin Heidegger
German Philosopher
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Quote examples
J. Anthony Lukas
American Journalist
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
Quote examples
Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
The blockade against American natural-gas exports needs to be lifted, and the war on coal needs to be ended, so that, instead of being wasted to replace perfectly good coal-generated electricity, our natural-gas exports can be expanded even further.
Quote examples
Jeremy Corbyn
British Politician
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Quote examples
Ralph Merkle
American Scientist
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Quote examples
Adam McKay
American Writer
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Quote examples
Len Buckeridge
Australian Businessman
Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
Quote examples
Robert Del Naja
British Artist
If the EU and the US pressured Israel for change and forced the end of the blockade, we might get somewhere. That pressure should also come culturally, with from without and within.
Example 1 of 10
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