Sentence examples for first sanctions from inspiring English sources

Henri E. Cauvin (NYT) ASIA JAPAN: CLINTON ORDERS SANCTIONS -- President Clinton ordered the first sanctions against Japan for expanding its hunting of whales, ordering that Japanese fishermen will be prohibited from fishing in United States waters if they are opened to foreign fleets this year.

Russian authorities have banned four athletes for doping offences, their first sanctions since the country's global ban from competition.

Infantino remains confident that the rules, which could see the first sanctions being applied in 2014-15, "have teeth".

But Iran's answer is a raspberry.Despite that, the first sanctions to emerge from the discussion now getting under way at the Security Council will be feeble.

Mr Putin worked hard to ensure that the first sanctions resolution on Iran, passed in December, was as feeble as he could make it.

But Iran was in violation of that demand through most of Mr. Bush's second term, and suffered fewer economic consequences than it has under Mr. Obama, who has imposed the first sanctions against Iran's oil revenues.

Kuscsik had won the first sanctioned Boston Marathon for women two months earlier.

Mike's father, Pat, competed in one of the first sanctioned roller skating races, in 1938.

The CAF said it was only the first sanction and Kabylie face more punishment.

In December, Ziegler fought her first sanctioned amateur bout, winning an easy decision.

In the memo, Mr. Romney's advisers adopted the language of the Bush administration lawyers who first sanctioned torture.