1.   American envoys dropped their calls for tougher condemnation in return for no mention of the American embargo on Cuba.

2.   And in the case of Cuba, it even went beyond the American embargo.

3.   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.

4.   By arguing that the real cause of the immigration crisis is the American economic embargo, Castro was repeating a long-standing Cuban position.

5.   Canada and Mexico have expressed similar views on the tightened American embargo of Cuba.

6.   Conservatives have taken up the plea made by Pope John Paul II to ease the American economic embargo for humanitarian reasons.

7.   Farmers, professionals and many others are struggling in the absence of aid from abroad and the ongoing American embargo.

8.   He said a de facto American embargo already existed, and that it had completely failed to influence the junta.

9.   His finger jabbing in the air for emphasis, Castro spoke most vehemently against the American embargo, eliciting rousing applause from the General Assembly and other world leaders.

10.   Israel was one of only three countries that did not vote against the American embargo on Cuba in a U.N. vote last month.