Security Council, with power to veto any punitive measures against the government in Khartoum.
They affirmed their support for a "political transition", but did not mention any punitive measures against President Bashar al-Assad.
Western diplomats hope that if Russia agrees to more punitive measures, China would not oppose them alone.
In the United States especially, the great majority of attention is on punitive measures, invoked after the fact.
Punitive measures could prompt important workers at Fannie and Freddie to leave, hindering programmes that stem home foreclosures.
That argument is the best anyone can make in defence of the ever-widening array of punitive measures applied to the world's pariahs.
These and other punitive measures blissfully ignore the lessons learned in the 1970s and 1980s, when Washington monetarily harassed the oil industry: Investment plummeted.
The West, in general, seems to be far too enamored of using sticks and to resort to punitive measures without first exhausting other options.
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But the pressures of the election campaign drove Mr Straw to embellish these sensible proposals with several crowd-pleasing punitive measures that are now destined to become law.
The finding sets the stage for a showdown in the Security Council, which is expected to meet next week to discuss punitive measures against the Islamic republic.
Marciel said it was hoped a policy of engagement would one day achieve what punitive measures have failed to yield: a more open and democratic Burmese society.
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The blueprint that has been presented by the eight senators, for example, already delineates harsher punitive measures for future undocumented migrants, and harsher enforcement at the border.
The tests have cleared the way for the United States and other countries to impose new punitive measures against a country desperate for food and energy assistance.
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The European Parliament repeated this demand for punitive measures in December when it adopted the recommendations by Austrian Parliamentarian Hannes Swoboda on the negotiation of a new EU-Russia agreement.
In the 1980s, the political and academic consensus emphasised the rehabilitation of young offenders, on the assumption that strongly punitive measures tended only to turn them into hardened criminals.
"This is the first time the focus has been on education and awareness and redirection to legal and authorized services and not on punitive measures or a carrot-and-stick approach, " she said.
In fact, it is the pending bill, which would decide the punitive measures abusers could face (a mix of imprisonment, financial restitution and loss of custody), that spurred the campaign to begin with.
There was another pleasant surprise for liberal idealists on February 26th, when the UN Security Council unanimously agreed (along with other punitive measures) to tell the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the Libyan crisis.
In failing to do so, the manual fails to sufficiently emphasize that punitive measures, such as demotions and convictions, are vital for ensuring that individuals within the military take seriously their duty to not intentionally kill civilians and to take precautionary measures to prevent civilian harm.
It is hard to imagine that the nations of the world will be more willing to take punitive measures when the result of a violation is not the wholesale murder of innocent civilians, brutally documented by television, but simply the existence of a building suspected of manufacturing illegal agents.
Mr. JAVAD ZARIF (Iranian Ambassador to the U.N.): The same governments which have pushed this council to take groundless punitive measures against Iran's peaceful nuclear program have systematically prevented the Council from taking any action to nudge the Israeli regime towards submitting itself to the rules governing the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
With Lebanon now aboil, Washington should immediately impose other punitive measures permitted by the legislation, such as banning U.S. businesses from investing or operating in Syria, prohibiting U.S. citizens and residents from engaging in any property transactions with the Syrian government and restricting the travel of Syrian diplomats in the U.S. to within a 25-mile radius of their posts.
Earlier this year police chiefs warned MSPs against passing "punitive and combative" measures to encourage breastfeeding.
Possibly, but other measures are more straightforwardly punitive.
Ms Marshall marked her first day in office as children's commissioner by questioning the need for anti-social behaviour measures, saying at the time that plans to tag youngsters and disperse groups of youths were punitive.
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