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economic blockade

n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) non-technical an embargo on trade with a country, esp one which prohibits receipt of exports from that country, with the intention of disrupting the country's economy
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an embargo of all trade with a country or region, intended to damage or dislodge the government
[C20: influenced by Spanish bloqueo blockade, used by the Cuban government to refer to the US embargo]
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Iran is suffering an economic blockade because of US sanctions on the government over its nuclear program, which Washington opposes.
The Ambassador and Staff of the Venezuelan Embassy in Abuja on Saturday joined the global solidarity protest against the total US economic blockade by President Donald Trump.
Qatar economy "has fully come out of the initial adverse impacts" from the economic blockade with normalisation of capital flows and strengthening of macroeconomic conditions, Sheikh Abdulla noted in the latest edition (10th) of QCB's Financial Stability Review.
Satyendra Pathak Doha Demonstrating its resilience in the face of the economic blockade, Qatar's banking sector has stabilised over the course of 2018 and is well positioned to benefit from an anticipated economic expansion, Oxford Business Group (OBG) has said in its latest report.
The rally condemned the war crimes and economic blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition on the Yemeni people, as well as destroying infrastructures over mostly four years.
Capitals, SANA -- Branches of the National Union of Syrian Students (NUSS) and the Syrian communities abroad staged sit-ins in front of European missions in several world capitals on Saturday in call for lifting the economic blockade on Syria under the title of "Lift your unjust blockade on Syria."
It is to be mention here that Sheikh Abdul Aziz was shot dead by Indian troops on 11th August, 2008, while he was leading a procession from Srinagar to the Line of Control against the economic blockade of the Kashmir Valley by Hindu extremists of Jammu.
A small Gulf country like Qatar efficiently dealt with the one year of economic blockade imposed on it by a much larger country Saudi Arabia and its allies.
The governor of Qatar Central Bank (QCB), Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud al-Thani, has said that the nation has enough reserves to see it through the economic blockade.
28 (ANI): The northeastern state of Manipur has been enduring a prolonged economic blockade, effected by the United Naga Council (UNC), over the creation of new districts.
"Last year there was a significant setback in the bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States of America due to the return to hostile policy by Trump Administration against my country and the approval of new measures to intensify the unjust and illegal economic blockade imposed on the Cuban people, including new restrictions on the right of US citizen to travel freely to Cuba', the Cuban Envoy adds.
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