Sentence examples for made sanctions from inspiring English sources

Mousavi, on his Web site, recently criticized Ahmadinejad for his handling of nuclear negotiations, saying that his efforts have made sanctions worse and prevented Iran from developing "peaceful nuclear technology".

New sanctions at this moment might also fracture the international coalition that has made sanctions so effective so far.

Western countries accuse Iran of refining uranium for the purpose of building a nuclear bomb, and have made sanctions relief contingent on Tehran stopping the enrichment.

Prosecutors' offices regularly fail to provide prosecutors with clear guidelines on the appropriate use of their broad discretionary powers, judges seldom report acts of misconduct, and when reports are made, sanctions are rarely, if ever, imposed.

You then console yourself with the most Roman of sayings: "One pope dies, another is made" — sanctioning the eternity of an institution despite the transience of a single individual, the immortality of a city despite the impermanence of its citizens.

Instead, we have to make sanctions smarter, more mutually reinforcing.

There is a common interest to make sanctions work".

He changed the tax code to make sanctions against apartheid South Africa bite.

Last year the pact was strengthened to make sanctions more difficult to avoid and to make overall debt levels a bigger factor in determining whether penalties should be applied.

Analysts say making sanctions effective would require greater support from China, North Korea's traditional protector, which has so far been reluctant to tighten the screws on the North.

Its deal with North Korea may well pre-date that new alliance, making sanctions against it for supplying the North rather pointless.