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Embargoes were put in place on chemicals such as ammonia, used as a fertiliser, and chlorine, used in water treatment, to avoid them being stranded on the rails.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2024
Embargoes on Turkish food and bans on charter flights will hurt some Turkish firms.
From Economist • Dec. 3, 2015
Embargoes, sanctions and boycotts, along with internal resistance, helped bring about the isolation and eventually the end of apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.
From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2014
Embargoes have been issued for sections of the ranch, but satellite imagery produced by Maxar showed cattle on a swath where they were prohibited at the time.
From Washington Post
Embargoes on merchandise was another engine of royal power, by which the English princes were able to extort money from the people.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David
