Sample Sentences for
embargo
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  • The embargo failed because too many nations ignored it.
  • The embargo only inconveniences the rich.†  (source)
  • Stars, Cinder, if I'd known you were going to embargo me for asking you on a date, I wouldn't have dared.†  (source)
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  • There're some Guild people, too, demanding special privileges, threatening an embargo against Arrakis.†  (source)
  • The one cannot regulate the commerce or currency of the nation; the other can regulate commerce, establish markets and fairs, regulate weights and measures, lay embargoes for a limited time, coin money, authorize or prohibit the circulation of foreign coin.†  (source)
  • All content is embargoed—so the network can't tease the Andie affair in their ads.†  (source)
  • In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo.†  (source)
  • Then let them speak of trade policies and embargoes and new colonies and old grudges.†  (source)
  • Decision had been made shortly after we embargoed grain (so we learned from captured transport officers); time was used in mounting attack—much of it in a long elliptical orbit which went far outside Luna's orbit, crossing ahead of Luna, then looping back and making rendezvous above Farside.†  (source)
  • She wanted to talk, but there seemed to be an embargo on every subject.†  (source)
  • In an effort to stop Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt imposed ever-increasing embargoes on materiel, such as scrap metal and aviation fuel.†  (source)
  • He also carried on a never-ending tirade against the American embargo on arms shipments to Iran.†  (source)
  • He had alway sbeen against embargoes, but he would "raise no clamor" now, "being determined to support the government in whatever hands as far as I can in conscience and honor."†  (source)
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