11.   Beyond doubt, our continued economic embargo has hurt the Cuban economy and its people.

12.   Blackouts became routine, the U.S. tightened its economic embargo through the Helms-Burton act, and predicting the downfall of President Fidel Castro became fashionable.

13.   Both have also undergone punishing economic embargoes from Russia, including a border blockade currently imposed on Azerbaijan.

14.   Both leaders condemned the continuing U.S. economic embargo of Cuba.

15.   A majority of Cuban Americans insist that the U.S. government should continue its economic embargo of Cuba and other efforts to drive Fidel Castro from power.

16.   After being in place for seven years, the economic embargo is already broadly criticized on humanitarian and pragmatic grounds, this diplomat said.

17.   After weeks of negotiations, House Republican leaders agreed to language that would weaken the economic embargo against Cuba for the first time in four decades.

18.   After the invasion, soldiers would be used to rebuild the country, which has suffered under the military government and the economic embargo.

19.   But Castro will receive an altogether more cordial reception from U.S. business executives, many of whom do not support the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba.

20.   But he criticized the American economic embargo against Iran and American opposition to the construction of a pipeline to take oil from the Caspian Sea through Iranian territory.