Yes. People usually hire others to influence government officials. For example,we are told that in 2016 Taiwanese officials hired an American senator to set up a phone call with Donald Trump and the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen.
The correct answer is “an embargo”
In 2003 President Bush imposed many economic sanctions against Syria. The US banned all American exports excluding food and medicine, all fights were barred, all Syrian assets that had ties to terrorism were frozen.
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton are the two cabinet members continuously took opposing sides of issues.
Manifest destiny. They believed it was their god given right to expand westward.
