Sentence examples for retaining sanctions from inspiring English sources

Then came September 2009 when the Obama administration announced its 9-month long policy review to start engaging the military leadership while retaining sanctions.

The ministers retained sanctions against four members of Lukashenko's security service suspected of involvement in the disappearance of four political opponents in 1999-2000.

It attempted some cautious re-engagement, retaining the sanctions but opening up a dialogue.

French officials have signaled in the last 10 days that they believe the deal should be toughened up by extending its duration and retaining key sanctions on Iran for as long as possible.

He said Congress already has the authority to lift or retain the sanctions Congress has levied against Iran.

Congress retains trade sanctions against Sudan and the State Department has not retracted its accusation, of 15 months ago, that Sudan's government has been committing genocide in Darfur.

But the United States has retained its sanctions, which make it illegal for Americans not to disclose visits and any other dealings with Libya.

That he retained this sanctioned position during the Soviet era has been pointed to in some quarters, perhaps unfairly, as explaining the timidly officious quality in much of his work.

All three lawmakers are members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and voted in favor of legislation that required Obama to give lawmakers 60 days to review the nuclear agreement and ultimately hold a vote on whether or not the president could retain his authority to waive sanctions that were initially passed by the legislature. .

The United Nations should respect its own charter, as well as the Declaration of Human Rights, and lift economic sanctions while retaining the military embargo.

James Bernstein New York, May 25 , 2009• To the Editor: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett assert that the Obama administration's Iran policy is "guaranteed to fail" from the "incoherence" of negotiating while threatening tough sanctions and retaining a last resort of military action to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb.