Sentences with phrase «set against the regime»

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

He pointed out that as President Donald Trump is set to announce executive action against Muslims and immigrants, on top of other executive actions restricting women's reproductive rights and the plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the way to stand up to Trump «can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime.»

In the case of Syria, for example, an intense drought in 2006 and 2007 dropped crop yields, driving people into the cities and helping to set the stage for protests against the Assad regime that — when brutally suppressed — turned to revolt.

The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.

Federal policymakers need to establish a regulatory regime that sets a standard for quality, encourages innovative firms to compete against the historic market leaders, and gives administrators leeway to determine programmatic fit.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

This staggering first novel is set in 1970s Argentina during the so - called dirty war, carried out by the military regime against real or imagined insurrectionaries; the author sensitively follows the plight of a husband and wife who lose their son in the military crackdown.

Ros Wright, chairman of FAP, a charity set up by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, says: «The current corporate fraud reporting regime is based on a confusing hotchpotch of internal and external obligations which is undoubtedly hampering the fight against fraud.»