Sentences with phrase «under international sanctions»

On Wednesday, the government's nuclear power utility inked a deal to buy at least two power reactors from France — India's first major nuclear purchase from the West since it exploded an atom bomb in 1974 and came under international sanctions.

This priority is more important when the country is increasingly put under international sanctions and isolated from regional and international counterparts.

The movement was popular with working class citizens under 25, who have suffered under international sanctions which have affected Iran's economic growth.

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There would be little recourse to challenge such a decision under international law — the Paris Agreement has no sanctions for non-compliance.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF) and Spanish club FC Barcelona for breaches relating to the international transfer and registration of players under the age of 18.

«I believe, however, that while nothing should be ruled out, it is important to say that the sanctions that we are placing on Iran are having some effect, that we will continue to look at how the United Nations regime can be improved if it becomes necessary but Iran of course has an opportunity to comply with the International Atomic Energy Authority and with its obligations under the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and I hope they will do so.»

Under electoral law both the donor and recipient are obligated to report donations, meaning that if the payments are interpreted as donations in kind to the party, both News International and the party could face sanctions.

Cameras like the one Mosse «misused» to take this picture — it's on view at Jack Shainman Gallery until March 11 in an exhibition titled «Heat Maps» — are sanctioned as weapons under international law because of their ability to see at distances of up to 30 km.

Further, because REDD is not yet sanctioned under an international framework on climate, credits from avoided deforestation are limited to voluntary markets where they are worth substantially less than carbon credits in compliance markets.

The standard way to employ sanctions under current international law is to put tariffs on the imports from countries that are not complying with a treaty's provisions.

He represents clients in antidumping and countervailing duty cases before the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission, and advises on compliance strategies, internal investigations and enforcement issues arising under US export controls, sanctions and customs laws.

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Advising an international organization that functions as a Central Bank on its legal personality and immunity under both international law and UK law and on UN and UK economic sanctions

«There are legitimate reasons under international law for imposing sanctions measures of some kind to address what's happened in Ukraine.»

Named by the IAAF Council at its 2017 annual meeting in Monaco, Paulsson and Kotlaba will sit as arbitrators tasked with hearing and deciding breaches, and imposing sanctions, under the international federation's reformed Integrity Code of Conduct.

CrowdJustice does some due diligence to ensure none of the parties to the lawsuit are subject to any kind of national or international sanctions (such as Securities and Exchange Commission violations, federal or international court matters) and verifies that the case in question is under active litigation by a licensed attorney.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

While Bitcoin and other digital currencies offer anonymity that's very beneficial to North Korea, as it's under significant international sanctions, the country is open to going after old - fashioned fiat currency as well.

The South American country has under heavy international sanctions due human rights abuse and corruption and, thanks to extreme hyperinflation, the bolivar has lost 97 % of its value against the US dollar.