Synonym: trade embargo, trade stoppage. Similar words: embark, embarrass, embarrassed, cargo, gargoyle, barge, bargain, ergo. Meaning: [em'bɑːgəʊ] n. a government order imposing a trade barrier. v. 1. ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons 2. prevent commerce.
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31. That cooperation was crucial for the Clinton administration to win congressional support to lift a wartime trade embargo and normalize diplomatic relations.
32. The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo.
33. At the same time, international interests would like to ease the sanctions regime, particularly the trade embargo.
34. But has anyone thought how lifting that embargo would affect another outstanding industry in the Red River Valley: the sugar industry?
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35. Venice had placed an embargo on Bosphorus trade and was hesitant even over her Alexandria fleet.
36. The human suffering makes it harder to justify the embargo and creates growing discontent in the region.
37. The government has imposed an arms embargo on countries involved in international terrorism.
38. Meanwhile the embargo has been eroding at an accelerating rate.
39. Many officials in Hanoi had hoped the lifting of the trade embargo in February 1994 would lead to quicker economic gain.
40. Moakley urged President Clinton to lift the embargo in a letter last April.
41. He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier.
42. The younger ones remember Watergate, the oil embargo and a contracting economy.
43. That compares with 10 percent in 1973, the year of the first Arab oil embargo.
44. This was a great mistake, because in 1973 the Arabs did impose an embargo and made it stick.
45. However, a general trade embargo would not be effective and would require international support, which is not in prospect at present.
46. They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year.
47. The U.S. has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba since 1962.
48. There had been considerable confusion over the interpretation of the embargo(sentencedict.com), the inquiry was told.
49. The oil embargo of 1973 was followed by another in 1978.
50. The union officials then put an embargo on the importation of yarn by ordering Lewis dockers not to handle such yarn.
51. Now that the war is almost over, Moscow's information embargo is less strictly enforced.
52. The story starts in 1985, when Britain put an arms embargo on Saddam's military state.
53. The minister said prospects for lifting the embargo at present are better than any other time in the past.
54. Kenneth Haley, an economist for Chevron, supported lifting the embargo on principle but said both sides have exaggerated the impact.
55. Can embargo be a useful instrument to protect lead times or influence Soviet policy?
56. All tapes carry clear instructions about a strict embargo until broadcast on Christmas Day.
57. The country has put an embargo on all imports.
58. The Arab oil producers had imposed an embargo.
59. NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST?
60. The meeting was prompted by the economic aftermath of the 1973 oil embargo and the collapse of the system of fixed exchange rates, according to the New York Times.