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- adjective Opposing or preventing
intercourse (trade between peoples or countries).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Oh, there is one side bar about men who have “problems with desire” and talk of “erotic nonintercourse … and cuddly scenarios”.
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Macon's Bill No. 2 repealed all restrictions on trade with the warring powers and provided that if either should remove its restrictions on American trade, the president should renew nonintercourse with the other.
1810, May 1 2001
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Napoleon announced revocation of the Berlin and Milan decrees, effective on Nov. 1, whereupon Madison, on Nov. 2, proclaimed the renewal of nonintercourse with Britain within 90 days.
1810, May 1 2001
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I will endeavor to make myself understood by examples; Congress has power, under the clause in question, to lay embargoes, to pass nonintercourse, or nonimportation, or countervailing laws, and this power they have frequently exercised.
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'Under the power to regulate foreign commerce Congress impose duties on importations, give drawbacks, pass embargo and nonintercourse laws, and make all other regulations necessary to navigation, to the safety of passengers, and the protection of property.'
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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But this influx of imported goods was one of the chief factors in causing the depression of 1785, as it brought ruin to many of those domestic industries which had sprung up in the days of nonintercourse or which had been stimulated by the artificial protection of the war.
The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union Max Farrand 1907
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Let me here say, sir, that if the gentlemans doctrine had been received and acted upon in New England, in the times of the embargo and nonintercourse, we should probably not now have been here.
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Following this diplomatic episode, Congress Wain sought a way of escape from the consequences of total nonintercourse.
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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In the year 1808 the Senate of the United States annexed to the bill of nonintercourse a section which not only advised but actually authorized the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal against both France and England, if the one did not repeal the Berlin and Milan decrees and the other did not revoke the orders in council.
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I therefore recommend a suspension of all proceedings on that part of my special message of the 15th of January last which proposes a partial nonintercourse with France.
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