1.   Sanctions have bitten deep into this once-wealthy nation with thousands of children suffering from severe malnutrition and hospitals lacking many basic supplies.

2.   They also say they are pessimistic that talks planned for late June will resolve the dispute before the sanctions bite.

3.   Unless comprehensive and collective sanctions including trade are imposed on a country, experience shows that sanctions do not bite.

4.   As UN-imposed sanctions bite hard here, the pediatrics department is now treating cases of polio and rickets, diseases once thought to have been eradicted.

5.   Fifty-one percent wanted to wait for economic sanctions to bite.