Sentence examples for meaningless sanctions from inspiring English sources
"The group of Obama's running around and talking about meaningless sanctions until today is highly laughable, when their 'strategic patience' policy is completely worn out and they are close to packing up to move out," the statement reportedly added.
The official KCNA news agency quoted a North Korean foreign ministry official as saying on Sunday that talk among Washington officials of "meaningless sanctions... is highly laughable, when their 'strategic patience' policy is completely worn out and they are close to packing up to move out.
"If there is a crisis situation, it should be solved by other means than meaningless sanctions".
Pyongyang responded on Sunday by calling the threats of "meaningless sanctions... highly laughable".
It could retaliate with relatively meaningless sanctions of its own, but that would unlikely satisfy hard line critics as well as a sense that the agreement has so far failed to produce economic benefits for the average Iranian.
Suspending the PCA was a pretty meaningless sanction, but it was something to which the EU agreed as a way of enforcing what were at the time judged to be important conditions for peace and justice in Georgia.
You know, it is suggested, our existing sanctions are meaningless, they are not "biting".
He denied the proposed sanctions were meaningless, arguing that they were unprecedented.
As details of a possible settlement appeared in news reports over the last week, Google's competitors began arguing that a settlement without court-enforced sanctions was meaningless.
Slovakia's president, Robert Fico, recently called the sanctions a "meaningless" gesture that would jeopardise the EU economy, and Slovak officials reportedly attempted to have Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, left off the sanctions list in March.
But M.L.S. Commissioner Don Garber said he believed that the letters of intent would be meaningless if the federation sanctions a women's league for M.L.S. "Our assumption is if U.S. Soccer approves our application, we would have players who would want to play in our league," Garber said.
