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[Applause.] [Unintelligible.] Massive sanctions on North Korea.

It was in late January that Kantor warned the Chinese that the US might impose massive sanctions.

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(Iran's stubborn behavior in the face of massive sanctions of course makes the most sense only if it intends to create its own nuclear weapons at some point, as I believe it does).

Before his appointment he had pointed to "massive, officially sanctioned corruption" as one of the country's biggest problems.

His big project there was a massive Syria sanctions bill that was meant to target Assad and his cronies.

In the past, Mr. Holbrooke has written — as he did in a column in The Washington Post last spring — that in Afghanistan, "massive, officially sanctioned corruption and the drug trade are the most serious problems the country faces, and they offer the Taliban its only exploitable opportunity to gain support".

Even under the pressure of massive economic sanctions, Iran was continuing to build its nuclear infrastructure.

The E.U. was Iran's largest trade partner until 2012, when the Obama administration cobbled together a massive international sanctions regime on the Islamic Republic ― even bringing along China and Russia ― to force it to make concessions on the nuclear issue.

Bush said he was prepared to sanction massive bail-outs for other financial institutions in trouble.

It was a massive campaign of sanctions and I was livid.