Sentence examples for Selective sanctions from inspiring English sources

"This is a policy of selective sanctions," said Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, a research organization.

For a time beginning in 1987, Japan overtook the United States as South Africa's leading trading partner, even as the Japanese government was putting into place selective sanctions to help isolate the apartheid government.

For a consumer goods company, it might be easier to see in the Sudan example above why staying in the country despite selective sanctions on the government could be the right decision.

After the government ejected an American team preparing to monitor the approach to the election, and told a European Union delegation not to come, both America and the EU are considering selective sanctions.

"This clause was not discussed with Guardian News & Media and we disagree with attempts to impose a selective sanction on the media," the publisher told MPs in a briefing note.

Of course, the khap panchayats are selective in their sanctions.

Sanctions, selective purchasing, and disinvestment are additional actions that can be used along with divestment to bring about political, economic, and social reforms in a targeted country.

The Milosevic-Rugova dialogue is vital to a solution, he said, and the selective use of sanctions, as carrot and stick, is vital to getting Mr. Milosevic to talk substantively.

Grammars failing to "deliver" good Ofsted ratings for non-selective schools could face "sanctions", including the loss of their own ability to select, warns the paper.

"The sanctions are a selective process because many of the candidates who committed fraud, they are still involved in the electoral process… that's unacceptable," he said during an October event in Washington.

Reports have indicated however that the government may sanction the opening of selective schools in poorer areas in an effort to improve social mobility.