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Kuscsik had won the first sanctioned Boston Marathon for women two months earlier.

Their remarks came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won the backing of NATO foreign ministers on Thursday for new United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

Casey Martin failed to qualify for the 1999 PGA Tour, nine months after he won the right to use a cart during PGA Tour-sanctioned tournaments.

NEW YORK, 28 June 2010 – UNICEF has been honoured for its coverage of the challenges facing Palestinian children in 'Protecting Childhood', a short film that recently won the 2010 Communicator Award of Excellence, sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts.

The administration might have won the same result -- or even better -- if it had moved for new sanctions last year.

This began, in Iraq's view, when the United States and Britain led an allied military force that ousted Iraqi troops from Kuwait and won endorsement for the harshest United Nations sanctions applied against a member state.

That ended with 10 I.O.C. members expelled, and a further 10 sanctioned, for accepting bribes from the committee bidding to win the Winter Games for Salt Lake City.

Providing explicit Congressional sanction for presidential action aimed at such purposes might win the support of both the humanitarian interventionists and perhaps even some military hawks.

To bring that day closer, and in the name of melding foreign policy with moral principles, Jackson fought for and won trade sanctions on Moscow for its refusal to allow the mass emigration.

But it is far from certain that the United States could win support for sanctions from the other four permanent members of the Security Council.

Next up was Connecticut, facing sanctions for N.C.A.A. violations while winning the N.C.A.A. men's basketball championship.