11.   The United States and Britain are pushing a plan to toughen military sanctions while easing controls on the shipment of consumer goods to Iraq.

12.   The U.N. then toughened sanctions, but Gadhafi remained defiant.

13.   The United States is violating international law by toughening its sanctions against Cuba, Vietnam said Tuesday.

14.   He was referring to western threats to toughen sanctions against Serbia if the Bosnian Serbs continued bucking the plan.

15.   Both the United States and the European Union are considering toughening the sanctions already imposed on Mugabe and his inner circle.

16.   The Security Council will consider next week whether to toughen sanctions on Sudan, which is suspected of harboring terrorists, western diplomats said.

17.   The Security Council will consider this week whether to toughen sanctions on Sudan, which is suspected of haboring terrorists, western diplomats said.

18.   They added however that the United States had not yet approached other countries with a proposal to toughen sanctions against Libya.

19.   Washington urged its allies to follow its lead and said it would judge their reaction before deciding whether to toughen sanctions on Tehran.

20.   Resolutions to ease sanctions on Serbia for breaking with Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina while toughening sanctions on Bosnian Serbs were given to the UN Security Councili on Friday.