embargo

/emˈbaɾɡo/, [ẽmˈbaɾ.ɣ̞o]

embargo


Examples
  • Hicimos el pedido de los productos a tiempo. Sin embargo, no serán enviados hasta el mes que viene.

    We ordered the products on time. However, they won’t be dispatched until next month.

  • Ella no dijo nada de nada, sin embargo yo adiviné todo.

    She said absolutely nothing, and yet I guessed it all.

  • Tom quería darle a María un beso de despedida. Sin embargo ella se echó para atrás.

    Tom wanted to give Mary a goodbye kiss. However, she backed away.

  • Todos tienen derecho a su opinión propia. Sin embargo, a veces es mejor no decirle a nadie cuál es esa opinión.

    Everybody has a right to his own opinion. However, sometimes it's better not to tell anybody what that opinion is.

  • Tiene unos defectos, sin embargo me cae bien.

    He has some faults, but I like him none the less.

  • Sin embargo, es cierto.

    It is nonetheless true.

  • La oposición al embargo estaba creciendo.

    Opposition to the embargo was growing.

  • Sin embargo, soy uno de los que piensan diferente.

    However, I am one of those who think differently.

  • La pobreza no es un vicio, eso es muy cierto. Sin embargo, sé también que la embriaguez no es una virtud, y que eso es aún más cierto. Pero la mendicidad, honorable señor, la mendicidad es un vicio.

    Poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.

  • ¿Es posible dar la fecha en que nació un idioma? Uno tendería a decir "¡Pero qué pregunta es esa!". Y sin embargo una fecha así existe: 26 de julio, el día del esperanto. En ese día en 1887 apareció en Varsovia un folleto de Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof acerca de una "Lengua Internacional".

    Is it possible to indicate a date on which a language came into life? "What a question!" you will be inclined to say. And yet such a date exists: the 26th of July, the Day of Esperanto. On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language".

  • No puedo impedir que reveles mis secretos. Sin embargo, te ruego que no lo hagas.

    I can't stop you from revealing my secrets. However, I beg you not to.

  • Sin embargo, aparte de los budistas, casi nadie es capaz de seguir de manera consecuente este principio.

    However, apart from Buddhists, hardly anyone can consistently follow this principle.

  • No puedes ver contenido en Flash en un iPad. Sin embargo, puedes fácilmente enviarte por correo electrónico las URL's de esas páginas web y ver el contenido en tu computadora cuando llegas a casa.

    You can't view Flash content on an iPad. However, you can easily email yourself the URLs of these web pages and view that content on your regular computer when you get home.

  • Sin embargo, algunas personas entre el público no estaban satisfechas con los resultados.

    However, some people in the audience were not pleased with the results.

  • Él no tiene idea de nada, pero sin embargo, tiene una opinión respecto a todo.

    He doesn't have a clue about anything. But he still has an opinion about everything.

  • Formatear una computadora es un proceso simple, sin embargo es caro. En Brasil, llega a costar $50.

    Formatting a hard disk is a simple process, though expensive. It can cost up to $50 in Brazil.

  • Creo que Tom, y solo Tom, puede hacerlo. Sin embargo, algunos creen que María también puede.

    I think that Tom and only Tom can do it. However, some people think that Mary could do it, too.

  • Sin embargo, Beth parece ser indiferente al dolor de Chris.

    However, Beth seems to be indifferent to Chris's grief.

  • El viaje en avión es rápido; el viaje por mar es, sin embargo, relajante.

    Air travel is fast; sea travel is, however, restful.

  • Mañana iré a un campamento de entrenamiento. Sin embargo, no será la parte física la que entrenaré, sino la mental.

    I'm going to a training camp tomorrow. However it's not the physical side that I'll be training, but the mental.


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