1.   Any sanctions would also come at a time when Teheran is saying it is interested in a more constructive relationship with Washington.

2.   Colombian stocks were little changed in trading one-quarter normal as higher shares in Banco Ganadero offset concern that U.S. trade sanctions are coming.

3.   Not long after the sanctions came down, Williams walked out of his office at Cole and leaned over a rail, looking out to the playing floor below.

4.   Now, sanctions are coming under assault by the business community and from those who argue sanctions hurt civilians, not political leaders.

5.   The sanctions came after he was tossed out of both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open this year following confrontations with authorities.

6.   The sanctions come amid deteriorating relations between the two countries over the drug trade.

7.   The sanctions come as relations between Washington and Beijing have warmed somewhat after a rocky start at the outset of the Bush administration.

8.   Three days after the sanctions came down, Camby was arrested in Connecticut and eventually agreed to perform community service to avoid a marijuana possession charge.

9.   U.S. trade negotiators are locked in talks with Japan in a last-ditch attempt to solve their trade dispute before U.S. sanctions come into force at midnight Wednesday.

10.   So are the protest slogans that were embedded in the Iraqi vocabulary as the sanctions came to be seen as an act of U.S. vindictiveness.