The removal of the political and economic sanctions greatly transformed the music industry.

As a result of strong United States economic and political sanctions the general has come under increasing pressure in Panama to step down.

Western governments had imposed political and economic sanctions on Burma because of repression under the junta.

Economic and political sanctions made finding American music extremely difficult.

The pirates of the early eighteenth century, however, were men who acted on their own apart from official political sanction.

Powell advocated a longer period of economic and political sanctions before sending troops.

"There would be a political sanction," he said, adding that the Parliament could always pass a new bill to address any specific conflict.

The military rulers in Haiti have come under heavy economic and political sanctions.

It is a scandal if a government breaks the law, and can actually do it without any political sanction!

Those who propose such prevarication actually want to allow the Commission to escape all political sanction.