Sentences with phrase «of economic sanctions imposed»

Stone highlighted the planned construction, beginning in 2018, of the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF), which would be the country's first synchrotron and its «biggest basic science project ever,» as «a testament to the country's determination to do science in spite of turmoil, political interference, and the viselike grip of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies to block Iran's suspected effort to develop nuclear weapons.

As you can tell from the far right column above, the main reason that OPEC's January output fell by 8,100 barrels per day from revised December figures was the decrease of 47,300 barrels per day in output from Venezuela, which is suffering from the effects of economic sanctions imposed by the US.

Not exact matches

South Korea also declared it was imposing a new round of economic sanctions on North Korea, whose sole major ally is China.

Trump has been a vocal critic of the Iran nuclear deal and imposing new sanctions would put economic pressure on Iranian leadership, but analysts say it could also send the wrong message to the country's people who are in the midst of challenging their rulers in the most significant uprising Iran has seen since 2009.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on NBC»S «Meet the Press» that the US would keep imposing heavy economic sanctions on North Korea ahead of the summit.

But, how large will be the impact of an economic sanction on a nation if the economic sanction is imposed by China and India as they are the 2nd and 5th largest economies of the planet with combined GDP of 13.46 trillion dollars (72 % of U.S.A's GDP) which shows that US is not the only nation with the economic might to impose economic sanctions on nations.

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.

The Natural Resources Defense Council criticized the decision to stop short of imposing targeted economic sanctions.

This amendment demands that economic sanctions be imposed against any foreign country that conducts fishing operations in such a manner as to «diminish the effectiveness» of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW).

Recent case highlights include acting for the CMA in its defence of the paroxtine «pay for delay» decision in the Competition Appeal Tribunal; acting for Gazprom in one of the world's largest commercial arbitrations relating to transit of gas through Ukraine (where the sums in dispute exceed USD 80 billion); and acting for Bahrain in an inter-state WTO dispute concerning economic sanctions imposed on Qatar.

Last, the study notes the need to prevent the illicit use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to get around economic sanctions imposed by the United States or other nations.

Apparently, Petro cryptocurrency is highly supported by the oil - rich South American country's oil reserves, but many view the project as little more than a way of escaping US - imposed economic sanctions.

The country's regulatory stance on cryptocurrencies, however, is noteworthy because the government, under the restrictive regime of Nicolás Maduro, is seeking to skirt economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by announcing its own oil - backed «petro» cryptocurrency.