Sentence examples for supported sanctions from inspiring English sources

The students booed when he said he opposed legalizing drugs and hissed when he said he supported sanctions against Iraq.

A European diplomat in Myanmar who has not supported sanctions said he had come to believe that they were decisive.

While there were leading Conservatives who consistently supported sanctions, there were firms with vested interests prepared to spend lavishly to persuade them that sanctions were wrong.

In Washington, the treasury department said it supported sanctions against countries that refused to make "constructive legal reforms" to combat money-laundering.

If Russia — or China — supported sanctions, they would have been on the dais with Mr. Obama, Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Brown at the G-20.

The United States and its allies supported sanctions as a way of getting President Robert Mugabe to take seriously mediation efforts to bring the opposition into the government.

Russia, joined by China, refused to support sanctions against the Qaddafi regime.

In 2014 he told Exxon's annual meeting that "we do not support sanctions".

Of the 15 Council members, only Libya opposed the measure and China, historically reluctant to support sanctions, abstained.

We also continue to support sanctions against Syria, even though sanctions, as usual, do little harm to the regime they are directed at.

By offering countries like India and China access to cheap American gas, Washington could make it more palatable for them to join in supporting sanctions against Iran, for instance.