"I believe that the most biting and important sanctions would be those on the energy side," he said at a news conference after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As for Iran, President Obama and his diplomats have managed to persuade Russia to go along with limited but important sanctions at the United Nations Security Council.
For the community, the most important sanctions are fees and reductions in the number of allowed tents set by AMOMAR.
Even if Spain refuses to extradite the men, the request alone is "a very important moral sanction on the Franco regime, which also shows Franco's victims that they can count on international support," said Victoria Sanford, professor of anthropology at City University of New York.
Thailand's geopolitical position as a bulwark against instability in south-east Asia and the rising power of China is too important for sanctions with real teeth.
More important, the sanctions further demonstrate a fundamental decision by the outside world that it is better to isolate the Taliban than to engage them -- and this is something that angers people here as they teeter from one day to the next.
"Sluts" are memorably marked in every high school (and some middle schools) decade after decade, because they serve an important, culturally sanctioned social function: They remind girls to police their own gender and sexuality, or else.
5, 19 As observed in other studies, social influence played a role, with several people saying they only consulted the GP on advice from others, most often a spouse or partner; this is consistent with the idea that the social context is important in sanctioning help seeking.
It seems dubious that Flynn was concealing from the president important conversations about sanctions with the country being sanctioned — essentially, that Trump's close adviser had gone rogue.
Instead, the goal is to weigh the gains against the costs—an elementary point, perhaps, but not one that Washington's sanctioneers have yet properly absorbed.The exercise should establish one important fact: American sanctions do not work unless other big economies support them.
