Sentences with phrase «sanctions against his administration»

Lutfur Rahman is facing a series of government sanctions against his administration at the East End borough after a report by auditors.

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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 - elect Trump has said he will meet with intelligence services after the current U.S. administration issued new sanctions against Russia.

On Monday, barely a week after China voted in favor of tough new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, the Trump administration launched an investigation into whether China is pirating the intellectual property of American firms under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act.

Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Trump administration «is committed to existing sanctions against Russia» and will keep them in place «until Moscow fully honors its commitments to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.»

The United Nations Security Council recently imposed more heavy sanctions against the regime in response to its missile testing, and Trump told reporters that the additional sanctions his administration was considering are «as strong as they get.»

One Putin effort to push back against the Magnitsky Act was the 2012 imposition of restrictions on Russian adoptions to the U.S. Those adoptions — and, by extension, the Magnitsky sanctions — were the reported topic of various conversations between Russian representatives and the Trump administration.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin discusses the Trump Administration's message behind sanctions against Russian oligarchs and companies.

Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials about what he and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, talked about in phone conversations during the transition — according to reports, they had discussed the Obama administration's sanctions against Russia.

Early European concerns about the Trump administration's commitment to energy security were compounded by broader fears about a possible U.S. - Russia grand bargain, including the potential relaxing of U.S. sanctions against Russia imposed after its invasion of Crimea in 2014.

On March 15, in its first announcement of sanctions against Russian actors, the Trump administration formally acknowledged attempted cyber a...

The former State Department diplomat who oversaw U.S. government sanctions policy said he was «extremely» frustrated when the Obama administration issued «weak» and «frankly inadequate» sanctions against Russia in December 2016 in response to that country's campaign to disrupt the U.S. presidential election.

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.

Prior to that, the UN Security Council had passed two sets of sanctions against the Taliban regime — but only after the Clinton Administration stopped luring the Taliban regime in order to win a regional gas pipeline contract from the Taliban for the American UNOCAL - led consortium.

State Senate Republicans demanded that New York's representatives in Congress — in both parties — vote against the Obama administration - backed deal to drop sanctions against Iran in exchange for a pause in its nuclear program.

The Trump administration plans to announce sanctions against China on Thursday after determining that the country is encouraging the theft and transfer of intellectual property from US businesses.

The Trump administration is apparently not on the same page when it comes to sanctions against Russia, with a rift erupting between the president and his UN ambassador over the issue.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was in North Syracuse on Tuesday and she responded to Sen. Charles Schumer's decision to vote against the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal, which would lift U.S., China, Russia and European Union sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits put on Iran's nuclear program.

«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.

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.

Obama's rollback comes in the form of a waiver package: States that seek relief from NCLB's provisions — including the 100 percent proficiency requirement in reading and math by 2014, increasingly harsh sanctions against schools deemed as «failing» or the strictly dictated use of federal education money — will have to adapt certain administration - mandated reforms.

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Further adding to these policy changes are active steps taken by the administration to impose tariffs or sanctions against the US» trade partners for treatment deemed «unfair».

Greta Lichtenbaum, a partner at O'Melveny & Myers whose practice includes international trade and regulatory compliance, answered questions about the impact on multinational companies of the Trump administration's renewed sanctions against Iran.