Sentences with phrase «economic sanctions against»

Retaliation was swift with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley threatening legal action and economic sanctions against the province of British Columbia for putting up another roadblock in the expansion of the pipeline.

The United States imposes economic sanctions against Cuba effectively prohibiting most transactions with Cuba.

The Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen's Protective Act provides the United States government with a legal mechanism to apply economic sanctions against countries like Japan that are undermining international fisheries and environmental treaties.

Lisson and Gagosian galleries send work to Tehran Now that economic sanctions against Iran have been lifted, art galleries are extending feelers to Tehran, suggests The Art Newspaper.

Remember, we can use military or economic sanctions against you — think of Iran, or North Korea.»

If only we can all begin believing with these kids and allocate more resources and efforts in their education, we will be doing more to shape Burma's future than put our faith in economic sanctions against the junta.»

The international community is equally divided as the US, the UK, and the EU dismissed Mugabe's victory outright and insisted that it will maintain the current economic sanctions against Zimbabwe, while China and Russia were quick to congratulate him.

China's denials, however, set up a familiar stalemate — until the Obama administration last year threatened to levy economic sanctions against Chinese firms that benefited from the hacking of any U.S. entities.

That said, it would justify further economic sanctions against Russia, or even considering that Iran has not cumplied with the treaty and get to its denounce by the UN / US, and the reinstatement of the situation pre-UNSC 2331 (total embargo and travel ban).

Britain is calling on European foreign ministers to intensify economic sanctions against Iran, one day after expelling the country's diplomats from the UK.

Under the deal, the U.S. would agree to lift economic sanctions against Iran in return for measures to prevent the country from building nuclear weapons.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt said they were «studying» a list of potential political and economic sanctions against Qatar after it rejected the list of demands.

12:20 - John Whittingdale (Tory, chair of media committee) wants targeted economic sanctions against Russia to prevent an annexation of Crimea.

The US has strong economic sanctions against Iran for nearly 50 years, especially targeting oil and natural gas.

Part of the French public wants to abandon the economic sanctions against Russia, since the Russian counter-sanctions are hurting some sectors of French economy.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is on the run from U.S. authorities for tax evasion and for flouting economic sanctions against Yugoslavia with his $ 5 million 1992 match against his old rival Boris Spassky in Belgrade, apparently hasn't reformed.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

In response to recent attacks, the Obama Administration issued an executive order directing an assessment of potential economic sanctions against nation - states (sup > 3 and individuals in those states that are identified as having been involved in cyberattacks against U.S. corporations.

Economic sanctions against Russia and a worsening of the conflict in Ukraine led the rouble to plummet by more than 13 % during September and October.

WASHINGTON — The White House says a decision on new economic sanctions against Russia will be made soon — not committing to an announcement Monday that U.N..

Battered by the plunging price of crude, the market is now bracing for what experts predict will be a flood of Iranian oil after the United States and the European Union lifted economic sanctions against Iran.

He calls MH370 the unfortunate target of a retaliation ploy by Russian leadership — a sinister response to the US economic sanctions against Russia:

Despite the tough talk, the immediate focus of the international response was expected to be on tougher economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

«It's dramatically escalated ever since we leveraged economic sanctions against Russia.»

WASHINGTON — Seeking to intensify pressure on Russia, President Barack Obama on Thursday expanded U.S. economic sanctions against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine, targeting President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff and 19 other individuals as well as a Russian bank that provides them support.

The price of oil dropped Tuesday after a big jump a day earlier over jitters that Russia's military advance into Ukraine could result in economic sanctions against one of the world's major energy suppliers.

Evraz's importance to the Western Canadian economy illustrates how tricky it will be for Ottawa and other western governments to escalate economic sanctions against Russia in response to that country's annexation of Crimea and its role in the Ukraine crisis.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Trump administration's tough economic sanctions against North Korea are the reason leader Kim Jong Un is considering peace talks.

President Donald Trump decide by May 12 to restore U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.

However, Canadian Tire will not receive products from locations where Canada has an Economic Sanction against that country.

Not exact matches

From his first meeting with Xi, Trump promised that if China would cooperate in tightening economic sanctions on North Korea, the US would refrain from taking a hard line against what it perceived to be China's unfair trade practices.

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

That position may help him marshal public sentiment against additional economic sanctions.

Just as Western countries impose sanctions on rogue states like North Korea, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has announced her intention to make ordinary British Columbians feel economic pain, so they turn against their leader.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Spurred to action by the downing of the Malaysian airliner, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, including an arms embargo and restrictions on state - owned banks.

At the same time, others urge caution, arguing that economic or other sanctions would trigger a counter-sanctions attack against the U.S. that would damage its economy.

Late last year, it was reported that the Iranian government was interested in utilizing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a way of bypassing economic sanctions levied against the country.

At the same time, the NCC calls for the unification of North and South Korea, without reference to the oppression, including religious oppression, in the North, and condemns sanctions against Cuba, which it blames for the economic disappointments of Fidel's revolution.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Some observers (like The Washington Post) quickly suggest that the Russians offer the West «closer cooperation with Moscow in the global fight against terrorism «-- obviously, in exchange of loosening economic sanctions for its past and current aggressions.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Federal Government to sanction the Republic of South Africa for Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians residing and working there.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently «seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant to bring Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke before the court on allegations of corruption against her, which the government should consider as crimes against humanity and serious enough for it to sanction her prosecution before the court.»

«We are also consulting with the administration on possible sanctions actions against individual Russians and Ukrainians that range from visa bans and asset freezes, to the suspension of military cooperation and sales, as well as economic sanctions,» the New Jersey Democrat said.

Pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has opined that Nigeria needed stringent sanctions to win the war against corruption.

Today in Washington, D.C., Indian and U.S. diplomats resumed talks on the impact of the economic sanctions put into place against India after the May tests.

The US Act allows for economic sanctions to be taken against trial sponsors who do not comply with regulations.

Russian luxury consumers travel much less these days, which is not surprising given that the rouble has lost 30 percent of its value against the euro in the past three years, hammered by low oil prices and bruising economic sanctions imposed over Russia's involvement in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.

In June 2001, Haw began his protest against economic sanctions imposed on Iraq in and, together with his ever - expanding demonstration, camped out opposite the Palace of Westminster for the better part of five years.

Running the length of the central spine of Tate Britain is a near - perfect, life - sized replica of the one - man camp that peace campaigner Brian Haw occupied on Parliament Square between June 2001, when he first began his protest against the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq, and the night in May 2006 when the police removed almost the entirety of Haw's belongings.