Sentence examples for promised sanctions from inspiring English sources

And they should lean on Turkey, which promised sanctions against Damascus, to follow through.

He did not go into detail, but presumably they would involve regenerating capacity in its nuclear programme if the West failed to deliver promised sanctions relief.

The Treasury rebuke came one day after the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, a group of affluent Arab nations, promised sanctions against Hezbollah for its forceful intervention to assist President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in combating a two-year-old insurgency that is shaking the Middle East.

The bloodshed heightened a standoff that has pitted Colonel Qaddafi — who vowed Friday to turn Libya into "a hell" as he hunkered down in his stronghold — against a spreading rebel force and increasingly alarmed international community, which condemned the violence and promised sanctions in coming days.

The launch was condemned by the United Nations, which subsequently promised sanctions as punishment – prompting North Korea to leave the talks for good.

They promised further sanctions if Russia made more incursions into Ukraine.

The bombardment came a day after the United States promised harsher sanctions against Damascus in response to Russian and Chinese vetoes of a draft U.N. resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Assad to step aside.

Having promised new sanctions if engagement failed, imposing them has become both a political necessity for Mr Obama and one of the few ways short of war the world can apply pressure to Iran.

The new law also promised tough sanctions for anyone backing the incriminated organisations.

They also named the Syrian National Council "a" legitimate representative of the Syrian people and promised further sanctions and diplomatic isolation of Damascus.

He thinks the president should use the West Point speech to "plant a flag in the sand" - promise tougher sanctions against Russia, restore spending on defence and diplomacy and call a special Nato summit to reassure members in the East, and send the same signal to allies in the Pacific.