In other words, for savings in the region of £50m, 400,000 people were sanctioned (and twice that number experienced the nightmare of referral for a sanction decision), about 10% of whom will have had to rely on a food bank.
Chief executive Tony Durrant said: Our team in Norway has done an excellent job in bringing the Vette project close to a sanction decision in a low oil price environment.
The energy giant ExxonMobil is suing the Treasury Department over a sanctions decision punishing it for its dealings with the Russian oil company Rosneft, while the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska announced a lawsuit over sanctions this month.
Germain (2010): 27 defines financial sector governance as 'publicly sanctioned decision-making directed towards establishing the framework of rules by which and through which financial institutions undertake and organise financial transactions within and across borders'.
A compulsory license is a legally sanctioned government decision that obliges the patent-owner to provide a license to another company, allowing that other company to manufacture a generic equivalent of the medicine in question.
But the country's deeply battered electoral process got a rare bit of good news on Sunday: The top challenger to President Hamid Karzai gave his support to a United Nations-sanctioned decision to investigate only one out of every 10 potentially fraudulent ballot boxes from the Aug. 20 vote.
In a statement on the sanctions decision, Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign-policy chief, said the EU was looking for progress on releasing political prisoners and ending ethnic conflicts.
The proverb that expresses in terse form a statement embodying observations about the nature of life or about wise or unwise conduct may be so much an oral tradition as to serve in some preliterate societies as a sanction for decisions and may even be employed as lawyers employ court precedents.
Shooting in black and white – a decision sanctioned by Young Frankenstein director Brooks, who feared Merrick's deformities would be "too grotesque" in colour – Lynch made great play of the industrial breakthroughs of the late 19th century, and the film's atmospheric depiction of sparking electricity and gaslight adds an almost steampunk counterpoint to the cobbled streets.
Ukraine's sanctions decision could have a "corrosive effect" on important foreign partnerships, said Andreas Umland, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperatinn in Kiev. .
She felt very strongly and we sanctioned her decision," she said.
