In addition to estimating goal attainment, determining the success of economic sanctions involves estimating the costs of the undertaking.
He had been deputy assistant secretary of state for energy and sanctions, involved in policy toward Iran and Libya.
Mr. Guillet pointed in this context to possible sanctions involving Eutelsat, a French-owned communications satellite used by Iran for its internal audio-visual networks.
Sanctions involving the immediate suspension of benefit payments shift jobseekers' focus away from work, forcing them to look for alternative ways to make ends meet.
The harshest sanctions involve restricting or eliminating the transfer of cash payments, called remittances, to friends and relatives on the island.
France has talked about other new sanctions that could hinder the sale of petroleum industry equipment and technology to Iran, but it has hardly challenged steps backing away from the sanctions involving gasoline it once believed would work.
The Secretary of State used his recent Middle East trip to articulate a new look at Iraq that concentrated on tightening sanctions involving arms and money while easing sanctions that affected ordinary Iraqis.
Upon arriving at U.S.C. in June 2009, O'Neill had to deal with the fallout from an ongoing N.C.A.A. investigation and school-imposed sanctions involving star O.J. Mayo, who played one season under Tim Floyd before leaving for the N.B.A.
To give a chance of success to really tough sanctions involving the supply of gasoline, the full cooperation of the G-20 participants Russia, China and India (plus Germany and Italy, who've wavered in previous compliance) is necessary.
