Sentence examples for partial embargo from inspiring English sources

He began the hostility against populist leaders in Latin America, declaring a partial embargo on Cuba in 1960 and laying the groundwork for the Bay of Pigs.

In 1960 the Eisenhower Administration imposed the first partial embargo (limited to exports) to communist Cuba, and Cuban-Americans and the GOP have been making beautiful music together ever since.

Oct 19 1960: United States begins partial economic embargo.

In a sign of distress, he imposed a partial trade embargo on Lithuania.

The rights group called on the United Nations to strengthen the partial arms embargo now in place against Sudan.

A precise date can be fixed for the beginning of the crisis - Oct. 17, 1973, when the OPEC imposed its partial oil embargo - but almost everything else about the crisis remains unclear.

More important, the American government maintained a partial arms embargo on Israel, while Czechoslovakia, at Moscow's direction, immediately sent a supply of weaponry, which enabled the new state to survive the attempts to strangle it at birth.

The entire Gulf had been destabilised.With the taking of the hostages came, first, the freezing of Iranian assets, then the partial trade embargo, then the other trade sanctions and the pressure upon the allies to follow suit.

Instead of languishing under a partial economic embargo imposed by the Greeks in protest against the 1974 invasion, the Turkish Cypriots would see their living standards soar, with help from Brussels.But Rauf Denktash, the community's veteran leader and president of the unrecognised Turkish-Cypriot state, does not see things that way.

Weapons have been proliferating since the UN security council adopted its ineffective-partial arms embargo on the region in 2005.

A temporary and partial lifting of the embargo in March means the country is now allowed to buy small arms.