Sentences with phrase «sanctions against the regime»

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.»

More than 500,000 Iraqi children were malnourished even before the war, partly due to United Nations sanctions against the regime for its weapons programs.

Not exact matches

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.

He said the latest and toughest sanctions resolutions against North Korea «are working, having an effect on the situation... on the capacity of the regime to obtain hard currency because to go along with the military programs or missile or nuclear (programs) you need money, and that's the objective.»

The United Nations Security Council was set to meet later on Monday to discuss fresh sanctions against the isolated regime.

Analysts have speculated that petro proceeds are a way for the Maduro government to sidestep U.S. sanctions against the socialist regime.

European stocks close lower as geopolitical worries remain on traders» radars Software AG, Polymetal among the notable losersEuropean stocks ended lower Monday, as traders weighed the limited strikes on the Syrian regime over the weekend and news of potential fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia.

In a recent discussion on «impunity» against the former corrupt political regime in Argentina, individual after individual present spoke out in shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violence.

The National Council of Churches, United Methodists, and Presbyterian Church (USA) joined in a coalition with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to lobby for a complete lifting of sanctions against the Castro regime.

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.

The British government, like other western states, will be looking closely at opportunities for investment in Burma after the EU reassesses its sanctions regime against the country on April 23rd.

The report said, «the committee having established a case of contempt against Mr. Mahama Ayariga as well as having examined the sanctions regime available, recommends to the House... that the Hon Member for Bawku Central, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, be reprimanded by the Rt..

The British marine insurer Standard Club is understood to have cancelled the insurance on all ships owned by Femco, a Russian cargo line, amid widespread suspicion it planned to break the EU sanctions against the Middle East regime.

Also at the meeting David Lidington MP said that it was vital that the EU matched the USA's sanctions regime against Iran.

Do you think that the sanctions are effective against the Iranian regime and will they help to improve the human rights situation in Iran?

The EU has significantly tightened its sanctions regime against Iran over the last two years in order to end the proliferation of sensitive nuclear activities and to halt the program the Western world fears is aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.

At this stage, it is important to note that the EU runs two different sanctions regimes: autonomous EU sanctions (e.g. against the Iranian banks and PMOI) and sanctions implementing UN lists of terrorist suspects issued by the UN Sanctions Committee (e.g. against Al - Quaeda affiliates and other terrorist outfits).

The last time this sort of issue came before the Court of Appeal was in Henry v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 19, [2013] 2 All ER 840 where the court granted relief against sanctions under the pre-April regime but warned that it would all be different after 1 April.

As a pupil, Zac was also involved in: R (on the application of RWE Generation UK Plc) v Gas and Electricity Markets Authority [2016] 1 CMLR 17, a challenge against a decision modifying the charges imposed on users of the National Grid (as a pupil assisting Gerard Rothschild); Speed Medical Examination Services Ltd v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWHC 3585, a judicial review challenging reforms to the process for handling whiplash claims (as a pupil assisting Gerard Rothschild); and an application for interim relief by a company that had been redesignated under a European Union sanctions regime (as a pupil assisting Maya Lester).

The application was for an order to unfreeze the applicant's bank account, which had been frozen pursuant to the European sanctions against supporters or beneficiaries of the Syrian regime.

From 1 November 2005 a new regime came into place with the idea that unnecessary regulation would be taken away and courts should not be imposing draconian sanctions against solicitors where only a technical breach of the rules occurred.

Many arguments have been advanced both in favour of and against creating formal regimes to monitor and sanction lawyer incivility.

The cryptocurrency is designed to bypass U.S. government sanctions against the socialist regime.