embargo
Example Sentences
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The market struggled to rebalance after Arab states put an embargo on oil exports.
“The most effective use of economic warfare we have seen in recent years was the Chinese rare-earths embargo,” said Fishman, who recently wrote the book “Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare.”
We “took” Cuba before President Kennedy initiated his crippling embargo in 1962.
From Los Angeles Times
Cuba, which has been under a US embargo since 1962, confirmed last Friday that it is indeed in talks with its powerful neighbor.
From Barron's
Following the oil embargo induced by the 1973 war in the Middle East, it was Kissinger’s diplomacy that created the International Energy Agency and its strategic oil stocks.
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