11.   Due to the American economic blockade, bronze was scarce.

12.   French politicians of all parties have long been critical of the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba.

13.   He has been careful not to complain about his own privations, speaking instead about the suffering of Palestinians generally under the Israeli security closures and economic blockade.

14.   He also diminished hopes for an early lifting of the five-month-old economic blockade of Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

15.   He has a rebuilt Republican Guard up and running, refitted in spite of an economic blockade against his country.

16.   In addition to traveling to Seattle and Los Angeles, she met this week with black writer Alice Walker, who supports ending the economic blockade against Cuba.

17.   It was a moment a stronger show of force or a stiff economic blockade might well have brought into line the new Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev.

18.   Noting that thousands of Russians still live in Chechnya, Stepashin opposed an all-out economic blockade.

19.   That sounds good on the stump, but how do you do that and maintain allies for the economic blockades on Iraq, Iran, Libya and Serbia?

20.   The conservatives in control of Congress want to punish Canada for its political presumption in defying the US economic blockade of the island.