All 11 Uses
embargo
in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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- Embargo, utter and absolute.†
Chpt 2 *
- You heard Prof say we should clamp an embargo on shipping food to Terra.†
Chpt 6
- Embargo it must be—and all that that implies.†
Chpt 6
- If our committee had ordered embargo and quit buying grain, we would have been chucked out and a new committee with other ideas would have taken over.†
Chpt 14
- You know ship for seventh was canceled; now they're talking about slapping embargo on us.†
Chpt 15
- I think we should push the embargo through Congress at once.†
Chpt 21
- "It seems to me," said Stu, "assuming that the embargo starts at once, we will need something to maintain the enthusiasm we witnessed tonight.†
Chpt 21
- Or there will be a long quiet period of increasing economic depression—from the embargo, I mean—and growing disillusionment.†
Chpt 21
- Around midnight they passed Embargo, then adjourned subject to call ....standing committees to continue.†
Chpt 21
- Had been two months of embargo and F.N. had never done us favor of being sufficiently nasty.†
Chpt 23
- 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.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(embargo) an official ban or restriction -- especially a government-imposed trade barrier
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)