Since 2004, the plant has faced repeated sanctions for environmental and worker safety violations.
However, repeated sanctions have so far failed to deter North Korea from continuing with its missile development.
When the corporation's illegal activities demonstrate a broad pattern of deliberate continued violations despite repeated sanctions and penalties -- it becomes incumbent upon the government to take more aggressive action, such as revoking the corporate charter that allows them to continue to operate as a business.
"For 20 years, we have repeated dialogue, sanctions, dialogue, sanctions.
In her visit to the US, for instance, she would not get tired of repeating how sanctions against Russia are only a way to put pressure and shall not to be confused with the goal -- which is pacifying Ukraine -- a country that, she warned, is more divided than we'd like to admit.
Although repeated rounds of sanctions over many years have not dissuaded Iran from pursuing nuclear technology, an administration official involved in the Iran policy said the hope was that the current troubles "give us a window to impose the first sanctions that may make the Iranians think the nuclear program isn't worth the price tag".
During the past four years, a whole series of policies have targeted Iran's right to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful energy, including illegitimate UN/US sanctions, repeated implicit and overt threats of military attack by the United States and Israel, overt and covert well-funded US destabilisation operations, and aid to terrorist forces seeking to overthrow the government of Iran.
John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University, disagrees: "If your operations are heavily dependent on an individual or business as a leading recruiter, you need to disclose that material fact in financial filings, especially if there have been repeated commercial fraud sanctions".
Prepaid rental listing services, in particular, have drawn complaints for decades, spurring action from the state Legislature and repeated investigations and sanctions by the California Bureau of Real Estate.
On the other hand, in some situations it may be futile to remediate in presence of an egregious lapse, lack of insight, lack of ability to reflect or in the case of repeated events, thus sanctions might need to be imposed, including dismissal from the program.
"The most obvious explanation for these findings is that an accountability system with vouchers as the sanction for repeated failure really motivates schools to improve," Dr. Greene wrote.
