Sentence examples for growing sanctions from inspiring English sources

"There are growing sanctions and new trading arrangements.

It was not clear last night whether Jalili would agree to a package that did not include any lessening of the growing sanctions pressure on the Tehran regime.

Prime Minister Rutte [the Dutch PM] rightly pointed out yesterday the growing sanctions would bring significant consequences to the Russian economy and I'll be meeting with my fellow G7 leaders later today.

While North Korea has faced chronic food shortages and growing trade sanctions, its propaganda strives to inspire nationalistic pride among its people, portraying their country as a small nation prospering despite the constant bullying of the "imperialist" Americans.

She also damned the growing Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, sidestepping the fact that some recent legislation targeting the movement includes language that also protects Israeli businesses operating in illegal settlements.

Expectations are growing that EU sanctions will be lifted in 2017.

Speaking at a conference, Mr. Ahmadinejad said his government was doing all it could to sidestep a growing list of sanctions, imposed over Iran's refusal to halt its uranium enrichment activities.

The gesture underscores a growing consensus that sanctions on Iran have not worked, but it also relies on asking Iran to do what it has consistently refused to do: suspend its production of enriched uranium.

The 100 or so Israeli business leaders who appealed to Netanyahu at Davos to reach an agreement with Palestinians or face a growing threat of sanctions are neither outliers nor representative of a marginal constituency.

Israeli officials have repeatedly said that a growing array of sanctions against Iran are not having any impact on the Tehran leadership and believe they will only back down in the face of a credible threat of military action.

Moreover, the incoming administration is under growing pressure to sanction an inquiry into possible criminal action by the Bush administration in its use of torture.