Sloane Crosley

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.

American Writer

Martin Heidegger

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.

German Philosopher

J. Anthony Lukas

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.

American Journalist

Robert Zubrin

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.

American Scientist

Jeremy Corbyn

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.

British Politician

Fidel Castro

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.

Statesman

Ralph Merkle

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.

Adam McKay

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.

Len Buckeridge

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.

Australian Businessman

Robert Del Naja

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.

British Artist

Blockade as a strategy is often used in military contexts, typically during war.

War Tactics

Blockades can be economic sanctions intended to pressure a country or region.

Economic Pressure

Blockades often imply a sustained effort over a period of time rather than a one-off event.

Duration

Blockades can be used as a form of protest or civil disobedience.

Civil Disobedience

Blockades are typically temporary and can be dismantled or removed.

Temporary Nature

Blockades often cause immediate local disruptions, like traffic delays or restricted access.

Local Disruptions

Blockading is an active process, it involves deliberately stopping something.

Active Effort

Though often physical, the verb form can apply to any sort of barrier, including non-tangible ones.

Broad Application

Despite its broader meanings, the verb is still often associated with protests or confrontations.

Context of Use

 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

Underwater on Bermuda’s...

 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.

The most successful...

 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.

Rob Forbes: Ways of...

 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,

Robert Wright: The...

 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,

Norman Spack: How I help...

 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

Tzeporah Berman: The bad...

 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,

History vs. Napoleon...

 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,

The history of the Cuban...

 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 --

Annie Murphy Paul: What...

 Penguins nest site crossing the blockade won't be easy