21.   France will quickly retaliate if French companies are affected by U.S. sanctions against companies investing in Iran and Libya, government spokesman Alain Lamassoure said Wednesday.

22.   Gardner said the planned U.S. sanctions would affect a lot of people who had nothing to do with bananas.

23.   Oil and gas experts opened a meeting in Cyprus on Monday to discuss how sanctions affect international energy markets.

24.   Sanctions would affect U.S. exports to China of electronic items, military goods and space-related equipment as well as any Chinese-made imports in these categories.

25.   The sanctions affect only the Toyota-Castrol team as an entity, not the drivers themselves or the Japanese auto giant.

26.   The sanctions also would affect five Chinese citizens.

27.   The sanctions do not affect U.S. humanitarian activities in Sudan.

28.   The sanctions will affect cash-strapped Pakistan more than India, which has a comfortable reserve of foreign exchange.

29.   The sanctions affect only the team as an entity, not the drivers themselves or the Japanese auto giant.

30.   He said the country survived without foreign assistance for many years and that future sanctions would not affect the present circumstances.