embargo
Example Sentences
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It possesses the world’s fourth-largest crude reserves and second-largest reserves of natural gas but is prevented from exporting most of it because of a U.S. oil embargo.
Venezuela has been under a US oil embargo since 2019 and exports the vast majority of its output on the black market at a sharp discount.
From Barron's
Following the end of the war on April 30, 1975, embargoes and sanctions stymied Vietnam’s economy and access to global culture – except for Sweden.
From Salon
The version originally released under embargo included minutes discussing the overseas travel of various royals, among them the then-Duke of York, who was serving as a UK trade envoy.
From BBC
A Western embargo on arms sales to China after the deadly crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 complicated the task for Beijing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
