11.   The last ditch collapse means the US is likely to go ahead with threatened sanctions on EC products.

12.   Also under consideration is a proposal to accelerate approval of legislation to tighten sanctions on Cuba.

13.   American officials deny that Washington intends to keep sanctions on Iraq so long as Saddam remains in power, as the French and Russians say they believe.

14.   Americans are prohibited from participating in the offering because the United States imposes sanctions on Iran.

15.   And the leader of the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles was upset that the plan seemed to focus sanctions on principals and not teachers.

16.   Annan admitted the deleterious effects of sanctions on a general population when the target is the leader of a nation.

17.   Another argument is that the sanctions on Iraq have inflicted the most damage on the Iraqi people and neighboring countries.

18.   Annan recommended that the council consider imposing new sanctions on Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front, adding that the guerrilla leader had no future role in government.

19.   Any easing of sanctions on Belgrade should be conditioned on such monitoring, as representatives of all the major powers agreed Wednesday in Berlin.

20.   As a congressman, Vice President Dick Cheney voted against imposing sanctions on the apartheid government of South Africa.