Sentence examples for deepening sanctions from inspiring English sources

But faced with deepening sanctions and economic trouble, North Korea is pushing to restart them.

It seems that Washington believes that the intense and deepening sanctions on Iran will be enough to get 20% enrichment halted and stop the clock on Israeli military action.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on the CBS program "Face the Nation" that the administration was exploring how to "broaden and deepen sanctions".

He added that secretary of state Colin Powell's efforts to narrow and deepen sanctions against Iraq had failed and there was a "huge bear market" against Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary.

Rather than threaten war or deepen sanctions, a more productive path is to nudge Kim down the same road that the major countries in East Asia have all taken: a shift from power to wealth.

"Given Russia's direct military intervention and blatant efforts to destabilise Ukraine, we have deepened our sanctions against Russia today, in concert with our European allies," said US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian hardliner who presided over a period of deepening and damaging sanctions, has been blocked from running for president in Iran's elections next year.

The Guardian Council's speedy approval of the measure cleared the way for it to have the force of law and reflected Iran's deepening anger over the sanctions.

South Korea is not seeking the imposition of new sanctions but wants to secure broad agreement, particularly with China, on the "will and intention to continue and deepen the existing sanctions," a senior government official told foreign correspondents in Seoul on Friday.

North Korea's reliance on China has deepened as international sanctions have tightened and outside aid has dwindled after the country's nuclear and long-range missile tests in recent years.

According to the newspapers Munhwa and Chosun, South Korea recently dusted off and revised the plan, apparently in the belief that Mr. Kim's uncertain health and the North's deepening economic woes under international sanctions have made the country more unstable.