Sentence examples for be lifted first from inspiring English sources

The Iranians have insisted that the sanctions be lifted first.

"The sanctions must be lifted first, which will require a final decision on the nuclear programme.

Russia, desperate to recover the debts it is owed by Iraq and to resume trade, needs sanctions to be lifted first.

Meeting with foreign businesspeople at the conferences that are springing up regularly in Tehran, they are knocking out memorandums of understanding and other nonbinding agreements and even some contracts — all with caveats saying sanctions must be lifted first.

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".

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".

He also insisted that Iran will only sign a deal if international sanctions are lifted first, which could further complicate the negotiations.

At the last round of talks in Istanbul in January 2011, Jalili declared that Iran's nuclear programme was not open to negotiation unless sanctions were lifted first.

She had not lifted more than 80 kilograms (about 176 pounds) in the snatch in days, and had not completed a clean and jerk — in which the bar is lifted first to the shoulders, then overhead — in weeks.

The ratified bill calls for all sanctions to be lifted on the first day of implementation.

Come January the procedural block on a raft of reactionary judges may be lifted before the first gavel comes down.