Sentence examples for collective sanctions from inspiring English sources
The phrase "collective sanctions" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts discussing punitive measures imposed on a group rather than individuals. Example: "The international community decided to impose collective sanctions on the country in response to its aggressive actions."
Saul Levmore, the dean of the University of Chicago's law school, also endorses collective sanctions.
Collective sanctions have ancient roots and are much discussed in the Bible.
Collective sanctions, he said, are neither more nor less likely to be unfair or immoral than individual ones.
In Great Britain, a governmental committee recommended strongly against collective sanctions and enforcement of resale price maintenance agreements, in sharp contrast to earlier governmental investigations of the subject.
If there is a problem with collective sanctions, Dean Levmore said, it is that they may be applied unfairly to the powerless or unpopular.
The main objection to collective sanctions put forward by legal scholars and philosophers is that moral responsibility should rest with the individual, not the family, tribe or nation.
And war itself may be said to be a collective sanction.
Europe's leaders are also handcuffed by an inadequate treaty of Union, by the problem of getting a coherent response from 27 different nations, and by a rise in anti-European sentiment in their home countries (particularly in Germany), which has deterred them from sanctioning collective action beyond that which protects short-term national self-interest.
The siege, the sanctions and the collective punishment only encourage a backlash, perhaps even a third intifada.
It can take such punitive collective measures as imposing economic sanctions or suspending recalcitrant members.
It's not a vote of defiance, bringing in extremists, rather a vote of sanction against a collective eurozone leadership".
