Sentence examples for devastating sanctions from inspiring English sources

If the next government is more pro-Hezbollah, they said, that could lead to devastating sanctions.

After more than three decades of international isolation and years of devastating sanctions, many Iranians embrace the prospect of peace and friendlier ties with the US.

In 2014, the United States persuaded the international community to level devastating sanctions on Putin's government after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea.

Iraq's first civil war developed after decades of authoritarianism, warfare and devastating sanctions destroyed Iraqi society, and after the 2003 American invasion dismantled the Iraqi state without a plan for swift reconstruction.

On July 23rd, the NCAA at last proved itself willing to stand up to one of its cash cows, when it levied a series of devastating sanctions against the football team at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), following a widely publicised paedophilia scandal.

Once in office, Obama convinced an international coalition of countries -- including reluctant parties like China and Russia -- to instate devastating sanctions against Iran aimed at bringing the Islamic Republic to the negotiating table.

A year and a half since the breakdown of talks over Iran's contested nuclear program and the imposition of devastating economic sanctions, Iran has returned to the negotiating table.

For two arduous years he rallied them to support his nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, urging them to resist devastating British sanctions with a Shia spirit of self-sacrifice and martyrdom, until he was overthrown in a US and British-backed coup.

More importantly, the destruction of Iraq's economy and civil society - which began a full decade before the 2003 invasion with the 1991 Gulf War and a decade of devastating economic sanctions - and the ensuing carnage are almost never viewed through the lens of more than 40 years of US global policy that preceded the Iraq occupation and indeed laid the groundwork for the present reality.

Rather than encourage these developments, Israel and the international community imposed devastating financial sanctions which forced Gaza and Hamas into what the then-UN Special Rapporteur for the Middle East Peace Process termed "survival mode".

Rather than encourage these developments, Israel and the international community imposed devastating financial sanctions which forced Gaza – and Hamas – into what the then-UN Special Rapporteur for the Middle East Peace Process termed "survival mode".