Among other decisions, investigators are examining a $90,000 grant sanctioned by Mr. Zachopoulos last month for a reforestation project at a group of archaeological sites in Salonika in northern Greece.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, signalled that he would intervene assertively in the debate on Capitol Hill in an attempt to kill the deal, which will grant sanctions relief to Iran in return for its acceptance of long-lasting curbs on its nuclear programme.
The article notes that the federal defense ministry has not granted sanction for prosecution in a single case out of 24 forwarded to them by the state government.
"We were granted sanction for the Western Isles Development Project in the UK North Sea at the end of the year.
In exchange, it will be granted sanctions relief estimated to be anywhere between $50 billion and $150 billion.
Granted, sanctions writ large are increasingly seen as ineffective tools in modern geopolitics; it seems like there's always a workaround or hitch to them.
Rather than grant divine sanction to our fear-driven survival instincts, I believe Jesus is describing the only possible way out of this vicious cycle.
In Illinois, for example, a $12 million broadband grant was sanctioned when a subcontractor was caught routing fiber optic cable through neighborhoods where its project engineers lived.
The only body granted officially sanctioned special treatment was that of the war's most sacred relic: the Unknown Warrior.
New York Times, August 4, 1977 In 1977, after a decades-long battle to abolish strip mining operations, President Jimmy Carter reluctantly signed the "watered-down" Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, calling it a "disappointing effort," which effectively granted federal sanctioning of mountaintop removal mining.
