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The prince decided to follow his mother's wise advice. His army blockaded the city for seven days and nights.

The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out.

Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative.

There, Alfred blockaded them, and with a relief fleet having been scattered by a storm, the Danes were forced to submit.

German forces blockaded the city in an attempt to starve the resistant inhabitants into submission.

Prison officers, who are not allowed to strike, recently blockaded jails around the country.

Pro-regime demonstrators blockaded off the northern part of the square with tanks and burned trucks.

The US and Britain airlift supplies into a Berlin blockaded by the USSR.

With parliament blockaded, no decision can be taken and temporary workers could be fired as their contracts expire.

Later the war spread out. German was blockaded all round, the supply of all goods was tight.

More than a month after Israel's deadly flotilla raid, another aid ship is sailing toward the blockaded Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip.

Using their own bodies and weapons made from wood, they blockaded the rivers and roads to stop the oil companies getting anything in or out.

The Trade Federation, in protest of government measures that would tax their outlying trade routes, blockaded and invaded Naboo.

The Kurdish districts of Damascus and Aleppo have been blockaded by the Syrian security forces.

Since then, Fatah has sat back as Israel, increasingly criticised by most of the rest of the world, has blockaded the territory.

Even when the mountains were blockaded by the snow, we could still take a shelter in hay , biting your little ears. . .

Then there were skittish suppliers, one of whom blockaded his firm's entrance.

Piles of rubbish make it grimier than refugee camps in Gaza, the blockaded Palestinian territory 35km to the south.

Meanwhile, the Israeli naval ships closely blockaded the sea area near Gaza Strip.

Police vehicles kept patrolling the blockaded streets including Xinhua South Road and Renmin Road Monday night.

At the advice of unscrupulous Trandoshans, the Empire blockaded Kashyyyk and enslaved the Wookiees, using their brute strength for labor.

As they have on past nights this week, many blockaded streets into their neighborhoods to prevent militiamen and strangers from entering.

For two days, plain-clothes security men blockaded the golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the country's most sacred Buddhist shrine.

Fishermen this week blockaded the ports of Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk with boats and barricades of burning tyres.

The Egyptian army blockaded the road with barbed wire and armoured personnel carriers.

Outraged, the Trade Federation brazenly blockaded the peaceful planet of Naboo in protest.

The Ethiopian report flatly denies that the government blockaded separatist strongholds during a famine, thus starving civilians.

they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it.

IN FRANCE workers angry about pension reforms have blockaded fuel refineries, causing 4, 000 petrol stations to run dry.

when thousands died from being blockaded, bombed and invaded by Israel. Just the opposite.

France's fishermen yet again blockaded ports on their side of the English Channel to demand more subsidies and higher fish quotas.

The planes landed in the blockaded city and local volunteers provided support on the ground.

This small airport was blockaded by the angry protestors.

September 17, 2011: Kosovar Serbs have blockaded two bridges in the city of Mitrovica (northern Kosovo, a predominantly ethnic Serb area).

On Tuesday, scores of strikers blockaded a police station.

By late August 1781, French ships had blockaded Yorktown so that no British reinforcements could reach Cornwallis.

A harbour blockaded by enemy ships.

His clinic was bombed in 1986, blockaded in 1991 and repeatedly vandalised.

The path was blockaded by snow.

Some noted that a centre-left government had similarly blockaded Albania's ports in the 1990s.

This is a rare exception since Israel blockaded Gaza and barred exports in 2007.

i blockaded my university for a week this way