Sentences with phrase «years of economic sanctions»

To put it another way, would you rather see your nation's environment, biodiversity and agricultural security permanently damaged, or endure a few years of economic sanctions?

During those hard years of economic sanctions, looters were already a danger.

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Add an anemic projected economic growth of 0.5 % next year, due to the weak rube, and Ukraine - related sanctions, and Russian consumers may be pulling back on everything from Pepsi to Hugo Boss suits.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

Despite sanctions to date, North Korea's economy is estimated to have grown by four to six per cent annually over the last three years due to increased economic autonomy, agricultural reforms and better weather conditions, favourable global market prices, and networks of lucrative, illicit activities.

Russia's economy has absorbed the shocks from oil and sanctions, and there are signs of a nascent turnaround, although economic activity will still contract by 0.6 percent this year

«The economy has absorbed the dual shocks from oil and sanctions, and there are signs of a nascent turnaround, although economic activity will still contract by 0.6 percent this year.

Late last year, it was reported that the Iranian government was interested in utilizing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a way of bypassing economic sanctions levied against the country.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Economic payoffs have been slow to materialize, and resentment over years of isolation and sanctions remains strong.

After 2 years of negotiations, Iran today agreed to dismantle large pieces of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting crippling economic sanctions.

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.

Russian luxury consumers travel much less these days, which is not surprising given that the rouble has lost 30 percent of its value against the euro in the past three years, hammered by low oil prices and bruising economic sanctions imposed over Russia's involvement in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.

In June 2001, Haw began his protest against economic sanctions imposed on Iraq in and, together with his ever - expanding demonstration, camped out opposite the Palace of Westminster for the better part of five years.

Jessica has 7 years of experience in advising on financial crime compliance and investigations, including on economic sanctions, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and fraud issues primarily for financial institutions but also including corporates.

With over 25 years of experience in export controls and economic sanctions, he counsels across industry sectors concerning all types of international compliance and enforcement issues, especially matters involving U.S. national security.