Sentence examples for global sanctions from inspiring English sources

Japan joined global sanctions banning arms and luxury goods trade with North Korea.

Mr. Molino acknowledged that global sanctions have been too rare but said the reason was not a lack of will.

With July's nuclear agreement, the meticulously crafted global sanctions are due to be dismantled, possibly leaving the US to revert to its previous attempts to unilaterally sanction Iran.

Mankell, the author of the Wallander series called for global sanctions against Israel to put pressure on it to lift the blockade of Gaza.

Surely it is time to lift the global sanctions against Palestine, end the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and give the Palestinians a chance to rebuild their shattered lives.

It would also give President Obama the flexibility to respond to Iranian offers that emerge from the negotiations without unraveling the global sanctions regime the administration has spent years cobbling together.

That remains a taboo in global sanction regimes on the principle that populations should not be punished for the sins of their rulers.

The West has imposed sanctions on the Syrian leadership, but tougher measures — such as worldwide sanctions, a global ban on sending arms to pro-Assad forces or the invocation of the International Criminal Court — have been stymied in the U.N. Security Council by Russia's veto, backed by China.

But what you might not know is that it has also marked the first stage in a campaign to impose global trade sanctions.

In the United States, President Trump has found himself under growing pressure to act after a bipartisan group of senators triggered global Magnitsky sanctions procedures last week.

The Wall Street Journal cites a new report by MIT's Jim Walsh, Research Associate in the Security Studies Program, which reveals that North Korea's investments in China have softened the impact of global economic sanctions.