Sentence examples for foreign sanctions from inspiring English sources

Now, he said, foreign sanctions would do more damage.

Until now, officials have been able to blame Iran's sluggish economy on foreign sanctions.

As the economy falters under foreign sanctions, the government is now encouraging both illegal and legal refugees to go home.

Until now, Iranian officials had the luxury of blaming Iran's sluggish economy on "unjust" foreign sanctions, says Farmanesh.

The new government took over an economy that had been hard hit by foreign sanctions and an international disinvestment campaign.

Moreover, it's really hungry: The D.P.R.K. is desperate for food aid, which has been largely shut down by South Korea and by foreign sanctions.

The Myanmar junta blames foreign economic sanctions for the nation's poverty, and foreign meddling for the persistence of political opposition, including the current demonstrations.

As the PA crumbles under fratricidal conflict and the pressure of foreign economic sanctions, the lawlessness has prompted the powerful Palestinian clans (which are not generally loyal to any one party) to see to their own security.

"As to whether the U.S. has actually sanctioned any firms for prohibited investments in Iran, there is not much of a track record," said Donald A. Weadon Jr., a Washington lawyer specializing in foreign trade sanctions.

It looks like an unelected quango is gearing up to impose foreign financial sanctions, by utilising unelected bankers to decline payments to foreign jurisdictions, based on a selective interpretation of the unelected CPS' Guidelines on the OPA, drafted in collaboration with unelected film censors at the BBFC.

Major banks have been engaged in one or more of the following: cheating millions of home-buyers with sub-prime mortgages; violating American foreign policy sanctions on Cuba, Iran and Sudan; manipulating international interest rates and currency rates; laundering cash for tax evaders and international criminal gangs.