Sentence examples for prolonging sanctions from inspiring English sources

President Fidel Castro expressed alarm today over both the Republican party platform on prolonging sanctions against Cuba and George W. Bush's pledge to deploy a missile defense system.

EU member states are to decide next month whether to prolong sanctions against Russia.

So other European states will have to decide soon whether to prolong sanctions against Russia, which arms the rebels and continues to give them backing through covert paramilitary involvement.

He hints that the Palestinian venture may prolong sanctions against fund-raising by Sinn Fein in America, supposedly imposed because the party has not yet agreed to support policing in Northern Ireland.Despite its pique, the Bush administration, like the British government, thinks the IRA is de-fanged and Sinn Fein well on the road to political virtue.

But the report said that prolonging the sanctions would be counterproductive by creating ill will from Austrians.

Ambassadors from the 28 member states agreed unanimously on Tuesday to prolong the sanctions until 31 January 2017.

The other intended audience was the European Union, which on June 22nd will decide whether to prolong its sanctions on Russia.

The report was published shortly before EU ambassadors agreed unanimously to prolong economic sanctions against Russia, in a bid to keep up the pressure for peace in the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine.

The Greek ambassador refused to agree to the key passage on sanctions – prolonging the blacklisting of 132 individuals and 28 "entities", mainly in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

Iraq blames the United States and Britain for prolonging punitive United Nations sanctions imposed after Baghdad's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and retained after a United States-led coalition drove Iraqi troops from Kuwait in the 1991 gulf war.

As the EU sanctions were prolonged for another year recently, so the counter-sanctions were too.