Sentence examples for applying sanctions to from inspiring English sources

The DWP has consistently denied that it gives job centres targets for applying sanctions to jobseekers, or discontinuing benefit.

The UN considered applying sanctions to Liberia.Israel suspended talks with Palestinians in Egypt after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israelis.

China Rejects Sanctions Against North Korea China ruled out applying sanctions to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, appearing to undercut an element of the Bush administration's strategy to deal with the country while intelligence agencies are trying to determine whether North Korea is preparing for a nuclear test.

We were pretty angry about that, and about what Vladimir Putin has been up to in Ukraine, and so for some time we have been trying to impose some sort of pressure on the Russian president by applying sanctions to his regime.

The three officials, as well as others from Pennsylvania and Delaware, said at City Hall in Manhattan they would recommend to 800 other state and local finance officials that they begin applying sanctions to prod the Swiss Government into joining new negotiations.

Because this account of duty defines the rightness and wrongness of an act, not in terms of its utility, as act utilitarianism does, but in terms of the utility of applying sanctions to the conduct, it is an indirect form of utilitarianism.

Ofqual, the examinations regulator, is still considering whether to apply sanctions to OCR following an investigation.

But the administration's latest push would name and apply sanctions to an array of companies.

During the weeks before Mr. Hussein invaded Kuwait, officials of the Bush Administration were lobbying congressman to persuade them not to apply sanctions to Iraq.

But the virtue of this scene is that it leads to the one serious political debate over Thatcher's determined refusal to apply sanctions to South Africa.

The E.U. failed to stop the carnage in the Balkans, and then it applied sanctions to the recalcitrant Serbs and curtailed immigration.