Sentence examples for substantive sanctions from inspiring English sources

One tax lawyer, who requested anonymity because he did not want to alienate city officials, said that a certified audit for each property would be expensive, and he questioned why officials were seeking additional penalties when there are already substantive sanctions for false statements.

Although Seoul is considering taking the case to the UN security council if the report concludes Pyongyang was involved, the likelihood of winning agreement to substantive new sanctions is small.

Neither man introduced substantive legislation to sanction Ukrainian leaders when they got back to Washington.

However, substantive economic and trade sanctions against Russia would also hit Europe hard, Schulz warned.

Overt Russian support for the plebiscite could have triggered more substantive EU and US sanctions against Russia.

The White House has given Iran a late-September deadline to begin substantive negotiations, or face additional sanctions.

The Iranians want to see substantive progress on the current sanctions, which, after all, were imposed precisely to constrain enrichment.

French officials say that the effort to increase pressure on Tehran is a crucial element in a "dual track" strategy — inflicting pain through sanctions in order to prompt substantive negotiations to halt Iran's enrichment of uranium, as the United Nations Security Council has demanded.

Some of the lifting of the sanctions will be more symbolic than substantive -- the embargo on oil was notably toothless.

The comments suggested frustration with the inability of the respective governments to hold substantive negotiations as envisioned in a United States-sanctioned plan.

In the last round of talks, in Moscow in June, Iran insisted that the world powers lift all sanctions against Tehran as a precondition for substantive talks on reducing or eliminating Iran's growing stockpile of enriched uranium.