Sentence examples for put sanctions from inspiring English sources

"They're prepared to put sanctions in place.

Yesterday Ukraine put sanctions on Konstatin Malofeev, a financier with links to two Russian rebel leaders.

Earlier this month, the White House threatened to put sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals.

In 2000, the UN put sanctions on Unita's leadership, at last making a real contribution to isolating him.

He intends to press the Security Council to put sanctions on countries or leaders involved in the illegal arms and diamond trade, as recommended by the panel.

The softening towards Burma is a dramatic reversal for the EU, which has put sanctions on 419 officials and more than 900 entities in protest at the regime's record of repression.

It can help in the margins by encouraging the opposition and putting sanctions on Mr Assad's regime.

Putting sanctions on organizations in Pakistan has not worked in the past, but sanctioning individuals has — as the nuclear proliferator Abdul Qadeer Khan could attest.

We got in the Toyota, and Pak said, "If the U.S. puts sanctions and sanctions and sanctions and sanctions, if they drive us to the edge of the cliff, we will attack.

But over all, it was Iran that dominated the day, because the administration has a goal of putting sanctions in place this spring, Mr. Obama said in an interview with The New York Times last week.

That has affected Iran, as well; in the past week, the European Union announced that it was putting sanctions on the secretive Al Quds wing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, saying it was providing technical and material support for Syria's crackdown on demonstrators.