Introducing embargoes and increasingly complex barriers for patients to jump through is also a mistake.
The problem for those who take this position is that embargoes are a certain mirage.
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Venezuela has provided shipments of diesel to the Assad government when other countries have imposed embargoes.
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Embargoes: The United States is honoring an arms embargo against Bosnia that contravenes the U.N.
Russia imposed trade embargoes on Georgian products, and later formalised its links with the two breakaway regions.
Some practices place embargoes on appointments allowing only urgent cases to be seen on the same day.
The EU and U.S. have embargoes on Iranian oil, but still other countries are buying from Iran.
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Both countries were at war and under arms embargoes at the time they bought the Argentine weapons.
It would also be wary of antagonising Saudi Arabia, a strong supporter of the American and European embargoes.
Short of total invasion, no military strikes or technological embargoes will stop such nations developing bombs if they want them.
The other is that Iran's mullahs may yet recall that the oil embargoes of the 1970s hurt producers more than consumers.
Back in the 1940s people began installing gas bladders on their cars to deal with the oil embargoes of World War II.
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But within individual member countries, the admiral said, "there's a great deal of discussion" about lethal support to Syria, no-fly zones, arms embargoes and more.
Inflation, oil embargoes, gas lines and political scandal culminating in the resignations of Spiro Agnew (October 1973) and Richard Nixon (August 1974) sent stocks straight south.
The EU is increasingly, as Charlemagne noted, using sanctions, not just the economic kind, but a whole range of measures from arms embargoes to visa bans.
While General Franco ruled Spain, its olive oil was sold cheaply to Italy where it was passed off as Italian, as a way around embargoes on Spanish goods.
The idea that audiences walked into Jurassic Park mostly unaware of its quality is one that resonates in the current age of long-lead review embargoes and spoilers included as marketing tools.
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"My team have earned the right to be playing at this level and they, I and the board have already been punished by way of the 10-point deduction and two transfer embargoes, " added Widdrington.
Using technology invented in Nazi Germany and perfected by South Africa's Sasol when those countries were under oil embargoes, companies are now also investing furiously to convert not only natural gas but also coal into a liquid fuel.
Rob Doherty, general manager of Reuters in the U.S., said at the hearing that in late 2008, Reuters twice sent employment and productivity data to clients slightly before embargoes ended, which he described as mistakes resulting from a computer reconfiguration.
On that view, it is a good time for the world's big consuming nations (including developing countries such as China) to build up buffer stocks, which provide the only real protection against short-term supply disruptions caused by embargoes, wars and the like.
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