Sentence examples for insisting sanctions from inspiring English sources

Iran was now "further away from getting a nuclear weapon", he said, while insisting sanctions would be enforced "robustly" until a final deal.

That's part of the usual Washington script - to behave with textbook deviousness, insisting sanctions "have nothing to do" with enrichment when only a few weeks ago it was the lack of an enrichment deal that was the key reason for more sanctions.

McVey insisted sanctions were only applied in the most serious cases.

Leon Panetta, the American secretary of defense, has insisted sanctions against Iran were working, even if "the results of that may not be obvious at the moment".

South Korea may also go along on that basis, though this week it insisted sanctions should stay in place even if dialogue resumes.The question is what a bilateral approach might achieve.

But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) insisted sanctions were only used as a last resort.

Iran continues to push hard for immediate sanctions relief, while the U.S. and its allies insist sanctions should be reduced gradually and only as Iran demonstrates it will live up to the agreement.

One particular sticking point is the pace of sanctions relief, with Iran insisting all sanctions be lifted at the onset of the deal, and the United States insisting the framework be built on Iran only getting relief from sanctions once it is verified the country is taking steps to reduce its stockpiles of enriched uranium.

Russia responded by insisting the sanctions would have little impact.

But the six African churches are insisting on sanctions against the US Episcopal Church, which tipped the simmering conflict over gay rights into open hostility when it consecrated gay priest Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.

By contrast, America and its European co-negotiators (France, Britain and Germany) are insisting that sanctions will only be suspended after the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA) "has verified that Iran has taken all of its key nuclear-related steps"—ie, at the end of the first stage of implementation, not at the beginning.