Sentence examples for early sanctions from inspiring English sources

"A key challenge will be to reach agreement on an interim measure that balances the P5-plus-1 desire to halt advances in Iran's nuclear program with Iran's desire for early sanctions relief," he added.

R. Nicholas Burns, who as under secretary of state helped push through many of the early sanctions resolutions against Iran during the Bush administration, said, "Even the tough Obama sanctions on their own are unlikely to work as Khamenei is dug in and obdurate".

Most measures announced Tuesday seek to close loopholes in earlier sanctions.

Earlier sanctions focused on some of those activities, but violators were subject mostly to fines.

He said that earlier sanctions observance had been spotty with many European energy companies working in Iran.

The moves brought a dismissive response from Russia's president Vladimir Putin, who has already retaliated to earlier sanctions by banning food imports from Europe and the US.

The JCPOA will be incorporated into a new security council resolution intended to replace and supersede six earlier sanctions resolutions imposed on Iran over its nuclear programme.

The United States should be urging China to exercise that influence — and reminding it that when it blocked a tougher Security Council statement (and watered down earlier sanctions on North Korea's nuclear program), it took responsibility for reining in the North.

Among the senior Syrian officials are the ministers of justice and finance, other members of Mr. Assad's cabinet, and the governor of the Syrian Central Bank, who the Treasury said has tried to evade earlier sanctions imposed by the United States.

In January, 41 South Korean players involved in match fixing were banned for life from the game by FIFA, extending earlier sanctions against them (though 21 were offered a reprieve, according to reports).

Additional punitive measures, which President Obama signed into law last week, broaden the roster of blacklisted Iranian industries to include all energy, shipping and shipbuilding enterprises and seek to restrict barter transactions that Iran has been using to circumvent earlier sanctions.