Sentence examples for sanctions were passed from inspiring English sources

Most of the sanctions were passed by Congress and state legislatures in the 1990's to get tough on crime.

Before the sanctions were passed, however, nervous lobbyists representing some of America's biggest corporations fought to include one exception.

The sanctions were passed to punish Russia for interfering in last year's American presidential election and seizing its neighbor's territory by annexing Crimea, but Mr. Trump made no mention of those actions.

Into the imperial period, memory sanctions were passed by the Roman princeps (emperor) and by the Senate.

Earlier on Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry said there "will undoubtedly be a reaction from our side" if the new EU sanctions were passed.

"North Korea has not yet passed the point of no return," she said after the sanctions were passed.

Even when sanctions are passed by Congress rather than via executive order, the president may have powers under those sanctions packages to temporarily waive implementation of certain provisions and lift or add designations.

Iranian officials have already promised to abandon negotiations if new sanctions are passed.

The irony is that in taking this route, he has disrupted a carefully shaped campaign by American Jewish leaders and others committed to containing Iran's nuclear ambitions that would have probably resulted in sanctions being passed by Congress had he not thrown this monkey wrench into the works.

In his first year in office, after Congress forced his hand by building a veto-proof majority, Trump begrudgingly signed sanctions that were passed in part to punish Moscow for its interference in the 2016 presidential election.

While the shift does not change the letter of the law of the sanctions, which were passed by Congress in 2003 and cannot be modified without Congressional consent, administration officials said it was significant because it indicated a change in how the White House would view requests by companies for waivers to sell their wares to Syria.