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421 documents for blockade definition

- SAREI V. RIO TINTO, PLC, (9th Cir. 2011)
... crimes against humanity arising from a blockade and the racial discrimination claims do not. Under... incorporated the Genocide Convention's definition, with minor differences in language that are not s...
- Federal Circuits
- Coming full circle: the Rome Statute and the crime of aggression.
... community has yet to reach a consensus definition of when aggression might be criminal. Unlike the c..., military occupation, bombardment, blockades and the like, covering the traditional forms of wa...
- Suffolk Transnational Law Review
- Vol. 33 Nbr. 3, September 2010
- The Olinde Rodrigues, 174 U.S. 510 (1899)
..., in a prize cause, for violation of the blockade of San Juan, Porto Rico. The steamship was owned a... of the enemy.' Manifestly this broad definition was not intended to be literally applied. . [Page...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Rep. Howard L. Berman Holds a Hearing On U.S. Policy Toward Iran
... declaring war and calling for a naval blockade. Nothing could be further from the truth or my int...Since a naval blockade is by definition the use of force, the language of this resolution ...
- Political Transcript Wire
- August 27, 2009
- The Constitution and the laws of war during the Civil War.
... to use in their mutual conflicts--to blockade the ports of seceded states in the spring of 1861 ...(137) The definition of guerillas was reasonably clear under the laws o...
- Notre Dame Law Review
- Vol. 85 Nbr. 5, December 2010
- Managing forced displacement by law in Africa: the role of the new African Union IDPs Convention.
...By definition, internally displaced persons (IDPs) are persons w...Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces ...
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Vol. 44 Nbr. 1, January 2011
- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Holds a News Conference at the National Press Club
... Why did you continue the blockade of Gaza and -- you continue the blockade of Gaza. ... of Gaza, a cause for war by your own definition, and -- and.. (CROSSTALK). QUESTION: No, no. Pet...
- Political Transcript Wire
- September 02, 2009
- Military operations on urbanized terrain.
... and, finally, institute economic blockade. There is an opinion in the West that if realized .... * According to the UN definition small arms includes conventional armaments of no l...
- Military Thought
- Vol. 12 Nbr. 3, May 2003
- For Israelis, It's 1967 All Over
In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel's southern outlet to the world's oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel. May '67 was Israel's most fearful, desperate month. The country was surrounded and alone. Previous great-power guarantees proved worthless. A plan to test the blockade with a Western flotilla failed for lack of participants. Time was running out. Forced to protect against invasion by mass mobilization -- and with a military consisting overwhelmingly of civilian reservists -- life ground to a halt.

... to Yasser Arafat) is the very definition of national unity -- and refutes the popular "Isra...
- New Haven Register
- May 22, 2012
- The Peterhoff, 72 U.S. 28, 5 Wall. 28 (1866)
... York, condemning for attempt to break blockade, a vessel ostensibly on a voyage from London to th... the cargo was contraband of war by any definition of contraband of war ever made. It cannot be doubt...
- U.S. Supreme Court