| 单词 | pacific blockade |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspacific blockade pacific blockade n. Law a blockade of the ports of one country by another country which is not officially at war with it. ΚΠ a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1841) 289 The depredations and hostilities which..were carried on with redoubled vigor, during the pacific blockade of the galleons. 1869 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 587 We hope to make it appear that there is no sufficient authority for the notion of a pacific blockade, that all blockade [sic] known to the law of nations is a belligerent act. 1990 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 8 Aug. a13 Unless we are willing to declare war against Iraq, any blockade must be what is known in international law as a ‘pacific blockade’. < as lemmas |
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