Sentence examples for intensifying sanctions from inspiring English sources

He is gravely mistaken in believing that intensifying sanctions is going to prompt economic collapse, leading to regime change.

France believed that the best way to head off an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites was by intensifying sanctions, wary diplomacy, and an unyielding interpretation of the constraints placed by the U.N. Security Council on the mullahs' atomic ambitions.

Although American interests, tightly conceived, may not be much implicated in Ukraine, Obama has taken the lead in creating a Western bloc that has imposed intensifying sanctions against Putin's regime.

Catherine Ashton, the European Union's senior foreign policy official, said in an interview that the intensifying sanctions were "a strongly political signal that the relationship has changed fundamentally" between Syria and outside nations.

The G7 said it was committed to intensifying sanctions on Russia, ahead of Ukrainian presidential elections next month.

However, by 2010 Iran was seen by the US as failing to respond to such overtures, and following a critical IAEA report on Iran published in February, the UN Security Council voted in favour of intensifying sanctions against the country.

But the international community has at least one more opportunity to intensify sanctions.

It won't be easy and may involve the use of force, or at least intensified sanctions and isolation.

The United States also needs to intensify sanctions on Syria and keep urging Russia to cooperate in ending the conflict.

Last week, Republicans voted with Democrats in Congress to intensify sanctions in an effort to force elections in DRC, observers noted.

Page A6 IRAN-BRITAIN TIES REDUCED Iran enacted legislation to downgrade relations with Britain, in retaliation for intensified sanctions imposed by Western nations last week.