1.   France, the only European Union country with a beef ban still in effect, said it would maintain its embargo despite legal action against it by the union.

2.   He argued that it was unwise for Clinton to maintain the embargo because Cuba is opening its economy to investors worldwide and U.S. businesses are missing out.

3.   However, if you choose to maintain your embargo, your used-car argument is unpersuasive.

4.   President Clinton had been pursuing a delicate policy of encouraging democratic change inside Cuba, while maintaining the embargo.

5.   That sounds as if Clinton wants to maintain the embargo after all.

6.   The minister of agriculture said France would maintain its embargo unless it received new evidence that all risks of mad cow disease had been eliminated.

7.   The irony, of course, is that those who wish to maintain the embargo do so by demonstrating its failure.

8.   Turkey, for example, is crucial to the U.S. effort to maintain the embargo on neighboring Iraq.

9.   Your brother, Jeb, the governor of Florida, wants to maintain the embargo in deference to his Cuban supporters.

10.   A recent report by U.N. experts said Liberia has repeatedly violated an arms embargo, and recommended that the embargo be maintained and extended to include rebel groups.