What is "naval blockade"

Usage examples of "naval blockade".

But it is the naval blockade that is hurting us, hurting real bad.

Since this was expressly forbidden by a law that was now being enforced with some rigor by the Union's naval blockade of the rebel states, Chase had said that there was nothing he could do.

I therefore suggest that we recommend to the Premier that in the event of the fall of the Loyalist government in the Union, the Republic should declare a naval blockade of all Union ports pending the removal of foreign forces from Union soil.

I must say, Your Excellency, that I don't see supervising a long-term naval blockade operation as .

I must say, Your Excellency, that I don't see supervising a long-term naval blockade operation as.

When the French had been forced to withdraw because of the naval blockade, the Maltese had requested British protection, and a restoration of their rights and privileges.

The supplies were simply not there to send, the farms depleted, the citizens of the small towns and the larger cities, choked by the naval blockade, fighting their own war of survival.

He pictured the naval blockade around Ireland and Great Britain, the combined naval and land blockade around North Africa.

A naval blockade with a battalion of marines prepared for an invasion of Oman?

In response, China announced a naval blockade of all the tankers ferrying oil to Taiwan.

Yet the Blue Tower had stood for thousands of years, had not been successfully attacked since the naval blockade of King Tison the Bold, four hundred years ago.

Having given up even hoping for it, we were saved by the arrival of Lord Lisith-ar-Moh and the combined Elvish forces from the Southern Islands who'd slipped through the Orc naval blockade in the night and landed just outside the walls of the city.