Sentence examples for during sanctions from inspiring English sources

Alstom had maintained its office in Tehran even during sanctions.

"If you were here during sanctions, you couldn't survive for five days," he said.

Big international oil companies such as Chevron, Total and Royal Dutch Shell will be interested, as will the Thai, Malaysian, South Korean and other Asian companies that stuck with Myanmar during sanctions.

Unlike Eastern Europe, however, Iran is flush with cash, after gaining access to a hundred billion dollars in oil revenues that had been locked in foreign banks during sanctions.

Insurgents have killed more than 150 non-coalition expatriate contractors, and NGO and UN staff.All the same, some of the damage done during sanctions, the war and after the war has been repaired.

Only a few years before this trip -- a trip every single member of Congress SHOULD have taken in the fall of 2002 -- Cheney's former company was still profiting from work it did with Iraq during sanctions.

Under the legislation, people could be fined for taking part in unsanctioned protests, or for violations during sanctioned ones.

Regression analyses were conducted to determine whether injuries during sanctioned fights were related to factors such as fight experience, use of protective equipment, and injury history.

Last fall, he said, he confronted a United Nations official over the quality of goods that Iraqis received in their monthly rations during the sanctions.

Zuhair al-Jezairy, who as editor of al-Mada newspaper broke the oil-for-food scandal in 2004, publishing a list of 275 people, including western politicians, businessmen and UN diplomats who took bribes from Saddam in return for backing his policies during the sanctions period, has termed journalism in his country "the real jihad".

French refiners also once enjoyed a healthy foothold in Iraq before their government wound up on the wrong side of the United Nations war debate, giving a leg up to enthusiastic American and British refiners, which couldn't deal directly with Iraq during the sanctions era.