Sentence examples for sanctions approved from inspiring English sources

"[Iranian] people never accepted that the sanctions approved in Congress recently were those already in the pipeline," he added.

The existing sanctions, approved three years ago, had been shelved in favor of talks to dismantle the country's nuclear program.

The European Union should agree this month on new sanctions that it will impose on Iran itself to add to the international sanctions approved by the United Nations.

But the sanctions approved by both the United Nations and the United States taking aim at Iran's financial institutions have heightened some banks' fears of transactions involving Iran.

MOSCOW -- Tensions between Russia and Iran appeared to grow on Monday over Russian support for sanctions approved last month by the United Nations Security Council.

Sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council to punish North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests and bring it to the negotiating table are starting to bite.

And China is simply unlikely to approve such sanctions at all.Even if tight new international sanctions are approved, they are unlikely to dissuade Iran from seeking nuclear weapons, most of the experts on the Times' "Room for Debate" blog agree.

But the sanctions recently approved by the UN Security Council--and the even tougher unilateral American sanctions signed into law by Obama earlier this month--seem unlikely to deter Iran.

But Administration sources said that a "consensus" plan for sanctions was approved and that President Reagan is expected to announce, probably as early as today, that the sanctions will take effect April 15.

The last round of sanctions was approved 17 months ago.

December 2006 First round of UN sanctions are approved.