Yet Putin's grandiloquence resonates with a contemporary audience smarting from recent sanctions as well as the humiliations of the last twenty-four yearsincece the fall of the Soviet Union.
Consequently, the theater switched the order of the two plays and the audience was given official sanction to leave at intermission.
Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the chief of Israeli military intelligence, told the audience that he believed crippling sanctions could persuade the Iranian government to abandon what he believed was its determination to build a nuclear weapon.
A few weeks after his campaign began, Trump spoke at Freedomfest in Las Vegas, where he was asked a question by a member of the audience about Russia and lifting sanctions.
At one point, Zarif walked the audience through how he believed the sanctions against Iran would be lifted: first an agreement would be signed, then the Security Council would approve it, and then, if that happened, he said, the United States would be legally bound to lift the sanctions — "whether Senator Cotton likes it or not".
Iraq would be willing to buy arms from Iran, even though purchases from Tehran are prohibited under international sanctions, Faily told an audience at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The end of peaceful negotiations was "a feature, not a bug" of the sanctions proposal, he told an audience at the Heritage Foundation in January.
Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha told a white audience Thursday night to prepare for international economic sanctions.
I asked one London audience if they knew what was meant by "sanctions" in the context of benefits.
He not only inaugurated the artistic avant garde, but also created an aesthetic and political scandal, provoking his audience to reimagine how and why things become culturally sanctioned.
