After the end of the international blockade, the distillation plant was replaced by the current oil-refining plant, proceeding to the gradual closure of the mines.

There was an international blockade against selling weapons to the Resurgence, but that seemed to make no difference.

The United States and Great Britain patrolled to create an international blockade of Africa, trying to suppress the slave trade.

Turkey wasted no time in joining the international blockade of Iraq.

"Short of throwing up an international blockade around the Chinese mainland, how can you stop them?"

These Lebanese, with long practice as smugglers, could be a major help to Iraq in puncturing the international blockade.

The cease-fire signed in March stemmed from $30-a-barrel oil and an international blockade of diamonds mined in rebel areas.

The seized gold is expected to be exchanged for imports of food and other supplies that Iraq cannot obtain because of the international blockade.

Over the following seven years, Iraq has been subject to a massive international blockade.

Pressured by the international blockade, Serbia withdrew its army from Scutari, which was subsequently occupied by a joint Allied ground force.