"sanction" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Last week, he said he is through cooperating with international weapons inspectors and wants the crippling economic sanctions on his country lifted.
- However, if they don't agree to it, crippling sanctions, or even war, could follow.
- The most immediate fear is that the country may face crippling sanctions, much like those imposed on Iraq in 1990.
- He lived through the crippling economic sanctions that were imposed in 1991, after Iraq had invaded Kuwait, and maintained until the 2003 invasion.
- He called for "crippling sanctions" to follow the report.
- Calls for "crippling" sanctions on Iran by Obama and Brown are certainly not the most productive policy options available to these two world leaders.
- But Western nations made Serbia pay a price for those victories: crippling economic sanctions.
- Romney said he would be willing to take military action but favoured firstly imposing crippling sanctions.
- The policy was widely criticised and led to crippling sanctions being placed against the country in the 1980s.
- The time has come to impose crippling sanctions on this terrorist and nuclear-financing institution.
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