Sentence examples for activate sanctions from inspiring English sources

The risk is that Iran will seize the high ground, China and Russia will support Iran in refusing to enter new negotiations and, when the January deadline for Trump to waive sanctions comes up, he will refuse to issue the waiver, which will activate sanctions and likely spell the end of the deal.

PAGE A12 Bush Forgoes Cuba Penalty President Bush said he would not activate a sanction seeking to punish foreigners for investing in confiscated property in Cuba.

A6 Bush Forgoes Cuba Sanction President Bush said he would not activate the harshest sanction of a law that seeks to punish foreigners for investing in Cuban property confiscated by the Havana government.

In a setback for the Cuban exile lobby and its Congressional allies, President Bush said today that he would not activate the harshest sanction of a law that seeks to punish foreigners for investing in property in Cuba that was confiscated by the Havana government.

On the contrary, it appears that social sanctions are activated as a counter force to increasing absence.

After two rounds of talks in October 2009, in which Tehran refused to accept a U.S. confidence-building measure to exchange its low-enriched uranium in return for fuel for a medical research reactor, the sanctions track was activated.

Sanctions further tend to aggravate this problem, so it does not seem advisable to use sanctions as a method to activate the most disadvantaged.

However, there could also be a positive selection process initiated by caseworkers if those with unfavorable characteristics are not activated and thus not sanctioned.

The US says it plans to activate a missile defence system in South Korea "within days" and tighten economic sanctions against North Korea.

In fact, you and I would've spent years of our lives mobilizing and activating for healthcare reform only to wind up with a bill that sanctions us to subsidize the very enemy we've been fighting all this time.

The European Commission — the executive body of the E.U. — said it had started the formal process to activate a 22-year-old regulation known as the Blocking Statute, adding reinstated U.S. sanctions on Iran to the scope of the legislation.