"sanction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even as the notion of sweeping sanctions was being discounted, however, the administration also came under pressure on Thursday to move quickly toward such penalties.
- But Washington would impose sweeping sanctions if China conceals past activities and the United States later documents that Pakistan had received missiles.
- The United Nations imposed sweeping economic sanctions on Serbia in May 1992 for giving military aid to the Serbs in Bosnia.
- The Security Council imposed sweeping sanctions against the country that would remain in effect until Iraq had fully disarmed, as verified by inspectors.
- The Senate on Sept. 9 passed a bill that would impose even more sweeping sanctions than those contained in the House bill.
- Passage of the legislation reduces the likelihood that a multibillion-dollar tax dispute between the United States and Europe will result in sweeping sanctions anytime soon.
- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voting along party lines, approved a bill today that would impose sweeping sanctions against South Africa to protest apartheid.
- In their public statements, the 19 states that have joined the Federal Government's suit against Microsoft have been particularly intent on seeking sweeping sanctions.
- The United Nations imposed sweeping economic sanctions against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
- Pakistan, like India, faced even more sweeping sanctions on trade and food assistance last year after detonating nuclear weapons in May 1998.
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