Sentence examples for maintaining this embargo from inspiring English sources

"Maintaining this embargo, maintaining this hostility, all it does is strengthen and embolden the hard-liners," said Carlos Saladrigas, a Cuban exile and co-chairman of the Cuba Study Group in Washington, which advocates engagement with Cuba.

Speaking at an event in Washington last week, he tried unsuccessfully with Cold War rhetoric to convince his audience that maintaining this 47-year old embargo - opposed throughout the region - is for the cause of democracy.

An Ucas spokesman said: "Ucas wrote to each institution earlier this year reminding them of the importance of maintaining the embargo.

"I will maintain the embargo.

I will maintain the embargo," Mr. Obama said.

Campaigning in Miami, Mr. Obama vowed to take a new approach toward Cuba policy, but nonetheless maintain the embargo.

This leaves Iraq's neighbours in the awkward position of having to maintain, or pretend to maintain, the embargo, while both their feelings and their pockets tell them it is time for the sanctions to end.How dangerous?

Despite Olmert's belated embrace of Abu Mazen as a peace partner, there is growing concern that moderate Arab willingness to maintain the embargo on Hamas may be eroding, and that Fatah may fail to muster the popular support it will need to depose Hamas, whether at the ballot box or in the streets.

For decades, we've heard the same rhetoric from Cruz and other politicians on the need to maintain the embargo until the Cuban government unilaterally overhauls its entire political system.

But he was one of 54 reporters, including the sixteen who maintained the embargo, who signed a protest over the fact that Kennedy defied the military censors by filing the news of the surrender before the Berlin surrender, which my father also covered for Stars and Stripes.

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on Thursday that China would continue to help the European Union recover from its economic crisis even as he sternly criticized the bloc for maintaining an embargo on weapons sales to his country.