The IMF says it has introduced reforms called stand-by arrangements (SBA) that would provide flexibility in lending to poorer countries, but Griffiths says they too would come with preconditions not imposed on wealthier states.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Potidaea every year received magistrates who governed their city from Corinth and this was not imposed, this was not by force, this was by mutual agreement.

迁徙地每年都会有科林斯派来,管理城市的行政官,但这并非强制之举,它并不靠武力维持,只是双方的协议

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"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

The U.S.and other Western nations have long imposed sanctions on the government, which he says have not worked.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Rodriguez said it was "insufficient." He said many issues had not been addressed, including the nearly 50-year U.S.imposed embargo of the island nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

It is like a miracle." African Union Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra says the deal reached in Addis Ababa will not be enough to remove A.U.sanctions imposed on Madagascar because of the coup.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

While Israel has imposed a partial freeze on construction in the West Bank, government spokesman Mark Regev says that does not apply to Jerusalem, which Israel says is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

It offends our values,". The president says the goal now must be to ensure that these kinds of abuses do not happen again, and that regulations are imposed that prevent the kind of risky deals that drove AIG to the verge of bankruptcy in the first place."

VOA: standard.2009.03.19