1.   Going on the odd assumption that there is a single nation called Iraq, the United Nations has imposed a crippling embargo on that outlaw nation.

2.   The Organization of American States, led by the United States, imposes a crippling economic embargo.

3.   But the United States, campaigning to keep the crippling embargo in place, charges that Baghdad has not revealed everything about its weaponry.

4.   Greece agreed to drop a crippling economic embargo against Macedonia.

5.   Greece said Tuesday it would lift its crippling embargo against its landlocked neighbor on Sunday.

6.   Humanitarian necessities such as food and medicine are exempt from the crippling embargo, but a shortage of hard currency has curtailed supplies.

7.   In return, Greece agreed to drop a crippling economic embargo against Macedonia.

8.   Iraq on Sunday rejected a plan to modify U.N. sanctions to permit oil exports, calling it part of a U.S. plot to maintain the crippling embargo.

9.   Iraqis, preoccupied with a crippling economic embargo, voted to elect a new Parliament that will be packed with supporters of Saddam Hussein.

10.   Iraq has recently intensified a global campaign to try to win the support of Russia, France, China, Spain and other countries to lift the crippling embargo.