blockade-runner

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Examples

• Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced quickly Sunday, denouncing the economic blockade of the Donbas.

• A blockade would have rapidly cut off Pakistan from oil supplies.

• “I put on a dress and walked down, and ended up getting first runner-up,” she recalls.

• Runner-Up: Pauline Etienne, Eden I could not take my eyes off this immensely talented Belgian actress.

• In April, Wehby was the front-runner; now, she is trailing badly and Oregon is safely in the D column.

• To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.

• And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.

• President Lincoln had declared a blockade of the Southern ports as soon as the war had started.

• The tumbled masses of slate-stratum fallen over one another was a proof that the blockade had been recently made.

• The sea trade of the country had been destroyed by the vigorous blockade which the Dutch ships of war maintained along the coast.