(n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
(v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly 740,000 people have signed a petition calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, organised by the campaign group Avaaz.
(2) An arms embargo should be imposed on Israel, the former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has said , as he warned that the level of misery and carnage in Gaza was likely to poison the remaining goodwill in the region for generations.
(3) Sanctions bit into oil revenues and the arms embargo seemed surprisingly effective: reports suggest that Gaddafi imported less than $10m-worth of arms every year from 1992 to 2003.
(4) The aim would be to raise insurance premiums and other shipping costs, and so boost oil prices as a way of inflicting pain on the west and replacing revenues lost through the embargo.
(5) Though the president announced last Sunday that he believes Congress will finally lift the trade embargo once has he gone, even some of his own party are nervous that he has already offered too much too easily.
(6) More than 200 licences to sell British weapons to Russia , including missile-launching equipment, are still in place despite David Cameron's claim in the Commons on Monday that the government had imposed an absolute arms embargo against the country, according to a report by a cross-party group of MPs released on Wednesday.
(7) Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry have warned detractors that they would be unable to reimpose a multinational trade embargo if congress rejects the plans .
(8) If the embargo is eased, the government will have more access to technology and money that can be used against us.
(9) His name was not on the list circulated to the media under embargo earlier on Thursday, but there were reports of him arriving at Heathrow during the day.
(10) It also called for the international community to implement arms embargos that limit the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Syrian government.
(11) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
(12) Sin embargo, la primera sección abre únicamente de 5am a 8pm y cierra los lunes por mantenimiento.
(13) But concerns grew in July when a federal court lifted an embargo on the Belo Monte licensing process, clearing the way for a bidding round later this year.
(14) The EU would stop its oil embargo and end its banking sanctions, and Iran would be allowed to participate in the Swift electronic banking system that is the lifeblood of international finance.
(15) Foreign ministers failed to agree on a weapons embargo against Ukraine , though sanctions will include a ban on the export of "equipment which might be used for internal repression", such as vans equipped with water cannon.
(16) Obama calls for lifting of Cuba embargo to 'bury the last remnant of the cold war' Read more Contests between American and Cuban sides are rare enough – it wasn’t until 1999 that the Baltimore Orioles became the first MLB team to play here since the revolution – but a chance to best a Florida team in front of the first US president here since 1928 raised the excitement to fever pitch.
(17) "Perhaps the closest antecedent is the civil wars of central America ," said an editorial posted on the widely-read news site Sin Embargo.
(18) National Coalition officials emerged from a meeting of their western and Arab backers in Rome on Thursday confident the European arms embargo would begin to crumble in the next few months and that Washington would also drop its ban on arming the rebels.
(19) Similarly, Ed Miliband argues that "we all support the idea that we should focus on the peace conference and making the peace conference in Geneva happen … But the problem is the government has put its energy into the lifting of the arms embargo, not into the peace conference."
(20) In the face of the latest embargo against the import of the Iranian oil, it was also an effort to find new customers.
Punishment
Definition:
(n.) The act of punishing.
(n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
(n.) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(2) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(3) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(4) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
(5) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(6) In many countries, male same-sex relationships are punishable by 10 years behind bars; in at least two, the penalty is death.
(7) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
(8) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
(9) Initial acceleration of the DRL responding appeared to be due to adventitious punishment of collateral behavior which was observed between the bar-presses.
(10) As the last two people executed in Britain, the macabre anniversary of their deaths at Strangeways prison in Manchester and Walton prison in Liverpool is generating more publicity than their crime and punishment ever did at the time.
(11) These cases fall into two categories: situations where offspring are provided with opportunities to practice skills ("opportunity teaching"), and instances where the behavior of young is either encouraged or punished by adults ("coaching").
(12) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(13) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
(14) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(15) If America can decide the punishment for Osama, why can't we decide that?"
(16) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
(17) We are determined to make sure governors have every power at their disposal to detect supply, punish those found using or dealing, and enforce a zero-tolerance approach.
(18) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
(19) Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week .
(20) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.