Sentence examples for two rounds of sanctions from inspiring English sources

But after two rounds of sanctions, Russia and China have balked at escalation to another round.

Partly thanks to two rounds of sanctions against individuals close to him, he had blinked: hence his decision to pull troops back from the border and more or less to accept Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine's legitimate president after his election on May 25th.

TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told the visiting chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Saturday that Iran's nuclear case should be handled by the I.A.E.A. and not the United Nations Security Council, which has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Tehran.

Manchin backed two rounds of sanctions legislation in the past two years that were opposed by the Obama administration, which claimed that the timing of the sanctions could upend the negotiations with Iran.

China — despite voting for all four rounds of sanctions — is increasing its investments in Iran.

Iran refused and, in late 2006, faced the first of four rounds of sanctions.

The United Nations Security Council has issued four rounds of sanctions to penalize Iran for not halting its nuclear work.

Mr. Juppé also said that France wanted to convene the United Nations Security Council, which has already imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran.

Since 2006, the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly called on Iran to halt its program of uranium enrichment and has punished it with four rounds of sanctions.

But the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls much of the economy, and would be the key to any nuclear weapons programme, has found ways around three rounds of sanctions, Western intelligence sources say.

The catalyst for the Iranian threats are new efforts underway by the United States and European Union to pressure Iran into disbanding its nuclear program, which Iran has refused to do despite four rounds of sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council.