21.   A separate US-Japan feud over airline routing also may cause the two sides to slap sanctions on each other.

22.   And, singling out Turkey, he expressed support for calls to slap sanctions on countries bordering the EU which are considered lax on illegal immigration.

23.   And the British have warned other EU nations against talk of slapping trade sanctions on Canada.

24.   Beijing vowed to slap retaliatory sanctions on imports of U.S. fruit, beverages and other goods.

25.   Beijing has vowed to slap retaliatory sanctions on imports of U.S. fruit, beverages and other goods.

26.   Clinton slapped sanctions on Sudan for alleged involvement in terrorist activities and bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum eight months later, again because of terror-related suspicions.

27.   Countries like Sweden and France fear slapping sanctions on poorer nations will add to the poverty that forces people to emigrate.

28.   EU foreign ministers slapped the sanctions on Nigeria after the regime of the late Gen. Sani Abacha executed nine dissidents.

29.   Foreign powers have condemned his crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the southern province of Serbia, and slapped further sanctions on his country.

30.   Further undermining European Union solidarity, Greece on Monday refused to rule out the possiblity it would veto any move by the EU to slap sanctions on Iran.