embargo
Example Sentences
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President Thomas Jefferson’s embargoes and trade restrictions, meant to punish Britain and France, had devastated New England’s port economies.
He said the U.S. first plans to sell crude that is backed up in storage because of the U.S. embargo.
Rubio grew up in an exile community that saw Batista’s replacement, Fidel Castro, remain in power for decades, despite a U.S. embargo.
From Los Angeles Times
Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves but its output has tanked in recent years due to a US oil embargo and chronic underinvestment.
From Barron's
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
