Sentences with phrase «other economic sanctions»

Speculation that he had stuffed the ballot box led the European Union to place an arms embargo and other economic sanctions on Zimbabwe.

Arizona and Indiana overturned so - called religious freedom legislation in 2014 and 2015, respectively, after businesses threatened boycotts and other economic sanctions.

Not exact matches

Alison Evans, deputy head of Asia - Pacific country risk at IHS Markit, said Wednesday that the reaction probably meant that China was likely to continue to press for diplomacy over economic sanctions, which the United Nations, U.S. and Europe and a variety of other nations have already placed on North Korea.

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.

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.

On Saturday, China and Russia joined other members of the U.N. Security Council in approving punishing new economic sanctions, including a ban on exports that supply up to a third of North Korea's annual $ 3 billion in earnings.

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.

Pence's comments on Russia's incursions into Ukraine will be closely parsed to see whether Trump will be willing to trade off U.S. economic sanctions to achieve other security goals, said Vershbow, now with the Atlantic Council.

Some of their competitors have already been lured to other states by state - sanctioned economic incentives.

The 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which was used to place sanctions on other countries after the Sept. 11 attacks, gives the president broad authority to respond to an «unusual and extraordinary threat,» including by halting incoming Chinese transactions, nullifying business deals and freezing foreign - owned assets.

a major global payments company in a multijurisdictional internal investigation, voluntary disclosure and settlement with OFAC regarding the company's compliance with U.S. economic sanctions laws involving Iran and other countries;

A major global payments company in a multijurisdictional internal investigation, voluntary disclosure and settlement with OFAC regarding the company's compliance with U.S. economic sanctions laws involving Iran and other countries.

The US has been considering a range of possible sanctions, economic measures and other steps in response to Pyongyang.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

With the recent economic sanctions and general tightening up to redirect the $ $ $ to other business (Syria campaign, next - gen weapons, & c.) the pie is getting too small to split among everybody, so all those various branches of corruption start fighting among themselves, and more and more of the assholes are going down.

President Donald Trump's administration moved quickly to try and lift economic sanctions on Russia and other punishments former President Barack Obama had put in place as soon as it took office in January, according to multiple sources who have spoken with Yahoo News.

India, on the other hand, is very export oriented and any economic sanctions on other countries, if reciprocated, would collapse their economy (with maybe exception of nuisance calls and internet scams).

Although the U.S. government took steps last week to limit the impact of economic sanctions, individual agencies began suspending all interactions with scientists from a long list of Indian and Pakistani research institutions, denying entry to some and questioning the status of others already in the country, restricting the exchange of lab materials, and canceling ongoing projects.

Given the country's appetite for building nuclear and other weapons, as well as the effects of economic sanctions, it seems likely that North Korea will continue to seek ways of exploiting the cyber world for economic advantage.

The U.S. and other countries imposed economic sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea, but it was falling oil prices that really hurt the country.

Other kinds of economic sanctions - pay cuts, school closings - are forbidden as well.

However, neither the Malaysian government nor respective transnational companies had to face economic or any other kind of sanctions (Shirali 1).

Climatism comment: So we place economic sanctions on Iran, North Korea et al, on one hand, and then give it all back on the other through millions, perhaps billions in carbon credit funds.

«Self - sanctioning is something that a number of Canadian and other western companies have done,» says Lou Naumovski, director general of the Kinross Moscow office and chairman of the board of directors of the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association, a trade organization that has spoken out frequently against the economic sanctions.

Davis Polk brings unique experience to clients affected by U.S. economic sanctions, the USA PATRIOT Act, the Exon - Florio statute, including associated reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Defense Security Service, and other laws.

BLG's Defence and Security Industry Group regularly advise defence industry clients with respect to government procurements and bid disputes; export controls and economic sanctions; access to information requests; federal and provincial lobbying rules; joint ventures and teaming agreements; intellectual property protection and rights; as well as various other types of corporate, commercial, litigation and labour and employment matters.

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.

OFAC is the US Treasury Department, which is responsible for economic and trade sanctions against countries and individuals accused by the US authorities of involvement in terrorism, drug trafficking, human rights violations, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational organized crime and other unlawful activities.

Though some analysts still doubt whether the Petro actually exists, the country has marketed the token as a tool to evade US economic sanctions, and other countries — including Russia, Turkey, and Iran — have discussed adopting state - backed cryptocurrencies for similar reasons.

The possible sanctions include: compensatory time with the children; economic sanctions for costs incurred by the non-violator parent due to the other parent's custody or parenting time violation; modification of the existing transportation (pick up / drop off arrangements)-- including changing the exchange location to a public place; ordering counseling for either or both of the parties and / or the children at the expense of the violator; ordering a temporary or permanent modification of the parenting time and custodial arrangement if under the circumstances this relief is in the best interests of the children; ordering the violator to participate in a community service program; incarceration of the violator with or without work - release; issuance of a warrant to be executed if the violator persists in failing to comply with court orders; any other appropriate equitable remedy.