break embargo
Frequency: 6.68.5 per million words
To illegally trade in defiance of an embargo.
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- The shipping company was heavily fined for trying to break the trade embargo.
- Intelligence reports suggested that several neighboring countries were helping them break the embargo.
- Any country that breaks the international embargo will face immediate sanctions.
- They took a huge risk when they decided to break the arms embargo.
- Despite the UN's resolution, the corporation continued to break the embargo for months.
- There are severe consequences for any individual caught attempting to break the embargo.
- The rebel group was only able to survive by finding ways to break the embargo.
- We have received credible evidence that the oil embargo is being broken by rogue traders.
- The government warned its citizens that breaking the embargo would be treated as a criminal act.
- He argued that it was morally justifiable to break the embargo to deliver humanitarian aid.