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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, non-intercourse acts, all efforts at commercial retaliation, remonstrances, arguments and appeals were alike disregarded.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler