Sentences with phrase «sanctions against those nations»

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.

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Trump's threat to hit North Korea came as that nation — reacting to new United Nations sanctions against its nuclear program — warned the U.S. would «pay dearly» and said it was examining plans to fire a missile toward an American military base on Guam.

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.

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.

China, North Korea's biggest trading partner, has joined United Nations sanctions against the North that have cut trade between them by around 90 percent.

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.»

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

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, announced Sunday morning that the US would impose new sanctions against Russia in the wake of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions against North Korea, the harshest yet — capping North Korea's oil imports, banning textile exports, ending additional overseas labor contracts.

The U.S. has until May 12th to decide whether to quit the Iranian nuclear deal and re - impose sanctions against the oil - producing nation.

About 28 nations have already sent home more than 140 Russian diplomats in a coordinated response, while the U.S. has introduced various sanctions against Russian oligarchs and political officials in an attempt to hurt the Russian economy.

Mr. George W.Bush, the previous President of United States of America, initiated a war against IRAQ, without obtaining the previous sanction of United Nations Organization (UNO) on the pretext of having nuclear weapons, even though the then IRAQ government openly exhibited to the whole world that it has no nuclear weapons.

In a South African shanty town, a black preacher might see priest and Levite as Western nations that soft - pedal sanctions against the apartheid government in Pretoria.

Just days after the U.K. joined other Western nations in intensifying sanctions against Iran, Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy this morning, ransacking offices and tearing down a flag.

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.

Seven years after vowing to punish countries that restrict religious freedom, the U.S. government announced sanctions against the tiny African nation of Eritrea.

Trump didn't issue additional sanctions against Russia Monday, contradicting an announcement by his United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley and underscoring the schism between the president and his national security team.

The United Nations Security Council can enact sanctions against individual countries.

This is a low point for Ghana's international reputation and only a thorough investigation of the intentions of the Ghanaians involved in this «Kenya Affair» and effective sanctions against them can redeem the nation's image.

The proposal is explicit:»... using pensions and procurement policies to pursue boycotts, divestment and sanctions against foreign nations and the UK defence industry are inappropriate, other than where formal legal sanctions, embargoes and restrictions have been put in place by the government.»

Boris Johnson has denied he suffered a «defeat» after the G7 group of nations rejected his proposal for sanctions against Russia — but his friends in the press do not agree.

The United States welcomed the United Nations Security Council's decision to sanction Nigerian terror group Boko Haram as a «important step» that shows «global unity» against their savage actions.

In a recent case before the Supreme Court, R v Forsyth and Mabey [2011] UKSC 9, two former directors of the British engineering company Mabey & Johnson Limited argued unsuccessfully that an executive Order made under the United Nations Act 1946 in relation to sanctions against Iraq was ultra vires because it had been made 10 years after the relevant Security Council Resolution.

• Acting for the successful Claimant in R (on the application of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin), a challenge to guidance from the defendant Secretary of State which sought to prohibit the administering authorities of the local government pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel Giffin QC).

The UDI led to sanctions against the country by Great Britain, supported by the United Nations.

With at least six Florida personal injury lawyers now facing unrelated criminal charges for defrauding auto insurers and the Sunshine State already in the running for this year's # 1 ranking among the nation's Judicial Hellholes, a panel of four federal judges last week imposed nearly $ 9.2 million in sanctions on two Jacksonville - based plaintiffs» firms for their shameless pursuit of more than 1,200 «frivolous and factually baseless lawsuits» against tobacco defendants... → Read More: Two Florida Firms» Fraudulent Tobacco Claims Draw Nearly $ 9.2 Million in Sanctions

A cybersecurity firm has warned that North Korea is launching hacking attacks to accrue bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as a means of circumventing the stiff sanctions brought against the country by the United Nations.