Sentence examples similar to Sanctioned forecasts from inspiring English sources
Downing Street is also struggling to explain why it disciplined a minister for saying the leaked figures may have to prompt a rethink while another frontbencher suffered no sanction for claiming civil servants' forecasts were "always wrong".
The European council appointed a new president this week – Poland's Donald Tusk – though the mood in Brussels was subdued as national leaders contemplated more sanctions against Putin and also gloomy economic growth forecasts for the continent.
See articleAssessing the impactRussia's central bank said it would have to tear up its previous economic forecasts because of uncertainty about the impact of sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine.
Other forecasts have been even rosier.But as on so many occasions since 1980, war, sanctions and domestic upheaval have constrained the huge potential of OPEC's second-biggest producer.
It was critically sanctioned.
Canon law sanctioned slavery.
Religion sanctioned his ascendancy.
"The government sanctioned it.
The Russian economy is in turmoil - Western sanctions over Ukraine, the fall in oil and gas prices and a tumbling currency have all contributed to dim financial forecasts.
