sanctions

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Phrases with the word

Examples

After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest that the USA bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline. Dmitry Rogozin

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam! Christopher Hitchens

Sanctions are a bad idea. Mohamed ElBaradei

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. Robert Mugabe

I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances? Jalal Talabani

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society. Alexander Hamilton