Sentence examples for Focused sanctions from inspiring English sources

"We are looking for focused sanctions on the regime itself," he said.

Instead, on Friday, the White House took a step that most experts agree will have a modest impact: announcing focused sanctions against three senior officials, including a brother and a cousin of Mr. Assad.

Rather than giving up entirely on Kenya at this juncture, the international community needs to find the right mix of narrowly focused sanctions and inducements that can put the country back on a reformist path.

The general was baptized into the hardening conflict on the second day of a three-day trip largely dedicated to shaping one of the Bush administration's highest foreign policy priorities: more sharply focused sanctions against the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, and rebuilding badly needed Arab support for them.

The IRGC has expanded its tentacles into many sectors of Iran's economy, so carefully focused sanctions need to be implemented swiftly to curtail the militarization of Iran's economy and society.

But as he explains, this can also be interpreted as imposing harsh and focused sanctions, divestment by US universities, pressuring China to cease its unconditional support for Sudan and frustration of UN initiatives, and the creation and enforcement of a no-fly zone over Darfur - options which have only been minimally explored or talked about to date.

Indeed one solid argument for absolute immunity in civil litigation is that disciplinary proceedings provide a more focused sanction than countless lawsuits.

More focussed sanctions would be one logical step, but the Bush Administration last month agreed to delay for six months its insistence on "smart sanctions," which would enable the United Nations to crack down on "dual use" goods, which could be employed for military or civilian purposes, while allowing medicine, food, and other essentials to flow.

We remain focused on sanctions to avoid even worse outcomes.

That, in turn, has helped build international support for the tightly focused financial sanctions.

South Africa, which made the discovery in November, presented a rough summary of the episode in a two-page letter sent this week to the special Security Council committee focused on sanctions against North Korea.