Particularly horrendous benefit sanction case studies.
After Obama made the case against sanctions, not a single supporter argued the opposite case, sources said.
Both business groups, which are funded by corporate donors with extensive dealings in Russia, including Caterpillar and ExxonMobil, have made their case against sanctions with major media outlets.
To make its case against severe sanctions, Microsoft, shifting its previous strategy, has named both Bill Gates, its cofounder and chairman, and Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, as witnesses in a trial on remedies in the antitrust case it lost.
The judge threatened them with a $10,000 sanction for their "nonsense", then dismissed their case against me because they lacked standing.
The Security Council first discussed sanctions, then last year the possibility of deferring the case against Mr Bashir.
Canada, Japan, South Korea and Chile, which were also parties to the successful case against the United States, said they, too, wanted to begin imposing sanctions on the United States.
He said he hoped sanctions would be imposed on the Russian officials who had taken part in the case against the film director.
Such a letter is the mildest form of sanction the committee (formally, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct) can mete out, and it ends the case against Mr. Shuster.
