Sentence examples for administered sanctions from inspiring English sources

These factors were often combined with delays to benefits or harshly administered sanctions, leading to a situation where deepening struggles with mental ill-health inhibited other coping mechanisms or exacerbated wider crises, leading to a worsening of often already poor health.

Its figures show that last year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spent anything up to £85m administering sanctions (70,000 sanctions were appealed against last year) and providing hardship payments for people who had been sanctioned.

David S. Cohen, the Treasury under secretary in charge of administering sanctions, rejected Hezbollah's depiction of itself as a resistance organization, noting that three of Europe's biggest countries — Britain, Germany and France — now support an effort within the European Union to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist group.

When I asked how that could change, Richards suggested giving the board the power to administer sanctions against the DOC when conditions at the jail don't meet its standards, but that idea has gained little traction.

In what appeared to be a coordinated announcement, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which helps administer sanctions, announced that it was punishing Sambouk Shipping FZC, based in the United Arab Emirates, for cloaking the origin of Iranian oil and selling it on the international market.

"There's no question that they played a significant role," said Stuart E. Eizenstat, the United States deputy Treasury secretary who took part in designing and administering the sanctions.

The problem is that the board which administers these sanctions is made up of two people: Scudamore and acting chairman Peter McCormick.

And Japan has used its pacifist constitution as an excuse to not even administer effective sanctions.

Aisha, a lawyer, and Mohammed, who once led Libya's Olympics program, are subject to an asset freeze and travel prohibition under sanctions administered by the United Nations.

The OFAC also administered numerous economic sanctions and other trade bans against the Balkans, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe.

Josh provided a bit of background, explaining that Venmo, as a regulated Money Service Business, is responsible for complying with US sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control OFACC), and that I would need to provide some clarification on what I meant when I said I was paying for ISIS.