Libya faced years of United Nations sanctions until it finally surrendered the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

And it doesn't carry a notion of sanctions, meaning I don't think anybody should be punished for eating strawberry ice cream.

而且这个判断也没有惩罚的意味，也就是说没有谁,会因为吃草莓冰淇淋而受罚。

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, "If by December, there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders, sanctions will have to be taken."

VOA: special.2009.09.26

He said that is why North Korea now faces stronger sanctions.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

He said if North Korea would not conform to international norms, "painful" sanctions would be needed to end the nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Have you lifted the oppressive sanctions? Have you stopped insulting us and making accusations against our great nation and its leaders?

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

But it also says it does not intend to reward Havana by lifting sanctions until it improves human rights conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

All of this,he says, also has been compounded by new economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations and the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Iran's primary nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz has continued to operate since 2007, despite sanctions by UN Security Council.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"If by December, there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders, sanctions will have to be taken,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

sanctions resulting from the launch will deal a fatal blow to six-nation talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The European Union imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe in 2002 following elections marked by violence and accusations of widespread fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"The sanctions so far that have been enacted by the Security Council have been, in the view of most observers, ineffective."

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

Mr.Reinfeldt underscored that the sanctions are primarily travel restrictions and a freeze of foreign assets of senior ZANU-PF officials.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Expanded U.S.sanctions would cover petroleum, petroleum by-products, oil or liquefied natural gas, tankers,and products used to construct or maintain pipelines.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"All those problems and all those reactions are a response to the sanctions imposed by not only the fourth U.N.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Security Council resolution, but maybe more importantly the unilateral sanctions imposed by America and now by the European Union."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Short-range test launches are not formally prohibited under United Nations sanctions against the North, which forbid medium and long-range ballistic activities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

North Korea says new U.N.sanctions could bring about war on the Korean peninsula and will not slow its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

Clinton said U.S.officials will begin meeting directly with Burma's military leaders to push for democracy because sanctions alone had not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Turkish officials were in Washington last month to defend their government's no-vote in the latest round of U.N.sanctions against Tehran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Some foreign policy experts in South Korea think the sanctions have forced Pyongyang to consider coming back to the negotiating table.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"We should use all possible sanctions and keep looking for ways to get North Korea to change through international collaboration.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

The U.N.Security Council has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium at home.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

North Korea has warned it will pull out of nuclear disarmament talks, if international sanctions are imposed because of the launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

I may be open to a sanctions bill in the future but at this moment we need to give diplomacy a chance."

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

They have gone further than they have ever gone in joining us on real sanctions against North Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

"Brazil considers it unnatural to rush to sanctions before the parties concerned can sit and talk about the implementation of the declaration."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Turning to Asia, Burma's Prime Minister, Thein Sein, said Western economic sanctions against his country are politically motivated and should be lifted.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The Obama administration is focusing most of its attention on getting a package of tougher sanctions through the United Nations Security Council.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14