Sentence examples for onerous sanctions from inspiring English sources

However, after a series of increasingly onerous sanctions were imposed on Iran by the West, it agreed last month to resume talks on its uranium enrichment.

Saying that "more onerous sanctions" might be necessary, he seemed to be threatening the mass firings requested by the Middletown school board.

Iran is already under the most onerous sanctions it has ever experienced, and now we're turning the screws further with sanctions that will touch their central bank, sanctions that will touch their oil products and so forth.

But the United States and its European allies have imposed increasingly onerous sanctions on the country in response to the enrichment program, including a European Union embargo of Iranian oil that will take effect on July 1.

Schools that do not meet their annual target for every group of students — as defined by race, poverty, language and disability status — are subject to increasingly onerous sanctions written into the federal law.

Despite onerous sanctions that have basically shut Iran out of the global financial system, the country is still finding some ways to bypass them, the Treasury Department said Thursday, describing what it called a small but  "emerging threat" to the effectiveness of the sanctions effort.

But she has found herself standing with them in opposition to the onerous nuclear sanctions imposed on her country.

The Iranians wanted an easing of the onerous economic sanctions imposed by the West and recognition of what they call their right to enrich.

The United States has led a Western effort to punish Iran with increasingly onerous economic sanctions while Iran defies the Security Council's demands.

Under the pressure of onerous economic sanctions from the United States and the European Union over the nuclear issue, Iran recently agreed to resume the talks.

Economists have attributed the problems to government mismanagement and the onerous Western sanctions imposed on Iran in response to its contentious nuclear program, most notably a severe restriction on the country's ability to sell oil and its expulsion from the global banking network.