1.   And the U.S. government shows no sign of backing off trade sanctions after the Lockerbie verdict.

2.   It did not promise more than a new look at sanctions after Iraq had met all its disarmament requirements.

3.   Others are wary of imposing sanctions after recurrent reports of damage they have done to civilians in Iraq and Haiti, among other places.

4.   The council offered Iraq a complicated formula that would lift restrictions on oil exports immediately and suspend import and export sanctions after certain disarmament goals are achieved.

5.   The Republican plan would impose sanctions after three unexcused absences and eventually apply to all students through high school.

6.   The school was spared repeat-violator sanctions after the basketball violations because they had occurred before the starting date of the softball penalties.

7.   The United States has been asking for strict enforcement of anti-doping rules and tougher sanctions after several Chinese swimmers were found to have been using steroids.

8.   The United States has twice imposed limited economic sanctions against China for sharing weapons technology with Pakistan, lifting the sanctions after China promised to stop the practice.

9.   Back then, the EU accused Canada of piracy and threatened sanctions after Canadian gunboats clashed with Spanish trawlers in the North Atlantic.

10.   Both Pakistan and India were hit with economic sanctions after the two hostile neighbors conducted tit-for-tat nuclear tests last May.