They engage in all manner of palace intrigue, they murder rivals and they amass tremendous wealth, often claiming divine sanction for their worst atrocities (e.g. Number 31: 17-18).
Administration officials are convinced that their efforts to toughen the sanctions on Iran caused tremendous economic pain and helped Hassan Rouhani win popular support in the Iranian Presidential elections last year.
In practice, therefore, anyone who is in a position to obstruct the US push for a new sanctions resolution has a tremendous degree of leverage over the United States right now.
Although meant to pressure the Iranian government to compromise on its nuclear program, "the very stringent sanctions have really been a tremendous blow to people," Ms. Ebadi said in a telephone interview.
Thus, we have brought tremendous economic pressure on them via economic sanctions to abandon their nuclear weapons program.
In a contracting jobs market, harsh new sanctions are senseless, unfair and a tremendous bureaucratic burden on overstretched Jobcentre Plus staff.
Houston, which by some measures has overtaken Los Angeles as the smoggiest city in the nation, has been under tremendous pressure to reduce ozone emissions or face sanctions from the federal government.
Unless the Obama administration backs up this rhetoric by changing sanctions policies, however, Iranians will continue to face tremendous difficulties in buying medicine for hemophilia and other serious health conditions.
Rouhani has kept his promise to do what it takes to end sanctions by rolling back Iran's nuclear program, shoring up tremendous political capital with his people.
One year ago, President Hassan Rouhani was elected to pick up the pieces of the country, a tremendous challenge that both the nuclear deal and the future of the sanctions weigh upon.
