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  • verb Present participle of embargo.

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Examples

  • First of all am I the only one who finds the idea of embargoing a report on cooperation amusing?

    Study Finds Bias in 2008 Campaign -- Among Men Only 2009

  • What about interim measures such as embargoing Iranian regime bank accounts around the world along with any bank or company that does business with them?

    The U.S.' Iran Problem 2010

  • WARREN: I've tried multiple times to get through to him and I think they're kind of embargoing me or other people until it goes to trial because anything that he would tell me might be able to be -- I could be subpoenaed and while I've tried I haven't been able to get through to him.

    CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2005 2005

  • What about interim measures such as embargoing Iranian regime bank accounts around the world along with any bank or company that does business with them?

    Forbes.com: News Melik Kaylan 2010

  • The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, made up primarily of salt dome storage along the Texas and Louisiana coasts, was created after the oil shock of 1973 - 1974, when OPEC flexed its muscles by embargoing oil exports to the US to punish us for our Israeli policies at the time.

    Robert L. Cavnar: Using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Not the Answer to High Gas Prices Robert L. Cavnar 2011

  • The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, or SPR, made up primarily of salt dome storage along the Texas and Louisiana coasts, was created after the oil shock of 1973 - 1974, when OPEC flexed its muscles by embargoing oil exports to the US to punish us for our Israeli policies at the time.

    Robert L. Cavnar: Using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Not the Answer to High Gas Prices Robert L. Cavnar 2011

  • Article also says US effectively embargoing supplies and material, demanding all kinds of explanations for the use of the material, forcing Israel to purchase same material from France.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » U.S. Denying Entry Visas to People Who Work on Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Reactor? 2010

  • Except, of course, that he did govern like an ideologue, literally embargoing the northern states on the laughable presumption that this would injure England's balance of trade.

    An Historical Note 2009

  • I think the most obvious explanation is the Supreme Court is embargoing likely topics for Orin to blog about.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Where Is the Fourth Amendment Docket?” 2010

  • This doesn’t mean embargoing skilled foreign workers, not locating abroad to comprehend and service local demand or partnering, rather taking advantage of cheap real property, a now quite hungry workforce and abundant natural resources, in this country.

    The Aviation Boom Market Rick Whittington 2010

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