Sentence examples for directing sanctions from inspiring English sources

After years of directing sanctions and suspicion toward defiant governments from North Korea to Iran, the Clinton administration abruptly declared today that "rogue nations" no longer exist.

A8 The Clinton administration, after years of directing sanctions and suspicion toward defiant governments from North Korea to Iran, abruptly declared that "rogue nations" no longer exist in the world, but, instead, are "states of concern".

In response to detailed queries about this article, Colonel Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman, said in an e-mail, "The department did not promulgate interrogation policies or guidelines that directed, sanctioned, or encouraged abuse".

Europe's reliance on Russian gas has left the industry free of direct sanctions.

This is despite the fact the UK has called for direct sanctions to be placed on Mrs Gaddafi.

It was the first time it had imposed direct sanctions on petrochemical companies — not the first time the administration had targeted the industry.

Another recommendation by the committee, which was led by Bangladesh's ambassador, Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, is for the Council to consider secondary sanctions on countries that violate direct sanctions, something it has not done to date.

The United States has never before aimed direct sanctions at Iran's petrochemicals industry, which Treasury officials said had become an important source of revenue to the Iranian government as sales of oil — its most important export — have fallen sharply in the past few years because of the effects of other sanctions, including a European Union embargo.

And if those talks broke down, it would allow our government to seek redress through direct sanctions.

(It is an unspoken rule among heads of state not to directly target other number ones with assassination or most direct sanctions, part courtesy and part strategy in dealing with crisis).

Unlike the quasi-market (where, in principle, organisational separation and contracting precluded the use of direct sanctions against provider Trust managers) in a true hierarchy, sanctions are available to higher echelons to use against all lower levels.