Sentence examples for Economic punishment from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the leaders of that imprisoned country have surely considered our last move - exerting maximum economic punishment, namely completely isolating North Korean economically from the world.

And finally, there's the economic punishment.

They also know that they will face no serious economic punishment.

Anything short of full debt forgiveness would be a brutal form of economic punishment to a people already suffering.

China has gone so far as to threaten economic punishment as it has sought to extend its sovereignty over regional waters.

He hinted at some "executive flexibility" in some categories of economic punishment of the North, but did not promise to exercise his authority.

Instead of responding with military action, which risked more political instability, the international community decided to impose economic punishments on Russia.

Still, the overtures could complicate American strategy, which has been hard-line and focused on economic punishments to force the North to make real concessions on its nuclear program.

"The wreckage of BP's recklessness is still sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and this kind of time out is an appropriate element of the suite of criminal, civil and economic punishments that BP should pay for their disaster".

But meetings have been taking place in recent days, aimed at setting out wider economic punishments if the situation worsens.

"The wreckage of BP's recklessness is still sitting at the bottom of the ocean and this kind of time out is an appropriate element of the suite of criminal, civil and economic punishments that BP should pay for their disaster," he added.