Sentence examples for tight sanctions from inspiring English sources

An American congressman who led the battle to keep tight sanctions on Libya said Monday night that he believed that Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, had "turned the corner" in abandoning terrorism and illicit weapons and should be rewarded with improved relations.

However, the Obama administration and the Europeans have invested enormous political capital in assuring their Israeli and Saudi critics that it was tight sanctions which crippled Iran's economy and forced it to negotiate.

The National Defense Authorization Act, or H.R. 1540, funnels $662 billion to military efforts through 2012, and was sold as a fresh set of counterterrorism measures and tight sanctions on Iran.

The US and the European Union imposed restrictions on Rosneft's chief executive Igor Sechin in April, and the company itself in July, as part of increasingly tight sanctions aimed at punishing Russia for its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.

There is still time for diplomacy, including tighter sanctions.

But without the threat of tighter sanctions western policy has no teeth.

Businesses and consumers are suffering from the effects of much tighter sanctions imposed in 2011.

The United States has pressed for tighter sanctions against Iran, something China has resisted.

As it did in 2009, the U.N. Security Council condemned the launch and called for tighter sanctions.

The UN security council met yesterday and Washington threatened "significant consequences" – code nowadays for "tighter sanctions".

At least the Treasury, it seemed, was benefiting from the tighter sanctions regime.