Sentences with phrase «at gunboats»
Have you looked at Gunboats?
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Conversely, if gunboat diplomacy is an option, you can use threats to become the monopoly purchaser of a country's exports and force them to trade at an unfavourable price.
«Finally I told them I was taking at least one of the boats out of there, and to hell with the Cuban gunboats.
The Assange standoff at the Ecuadorian embassy suggests that things haven't changed much since a century or more ago, when our preferred method of resolving a diplomatic dispute was to send in a gunboat or two.
The CDS made the disclosure Wednesday at the inauguration of 25 locally built gunboats donated to Nigerian Navy unit, NNS Pathfinder, in Port Harcourt.