1.   At the same time, international interests would like to ease the sanctions regime, particularly the trade embargo.

2.   And there was another blow to the sanctions regime the week before last.

3.   Any relaxation of the sanctions regime will almost certainly help him a bit, at least in his presumed ambitions to wage biological war.

4.   But the sanctions regime continues, even though its original purpose has gone up in smoke.

5.   Iraq seems to prefer the current sanctions regime, which has been eroding over the years with wavering support in Europe and Asia.

6.   It is an iron law that the longer any sanctions regime is in place, the harder it is to enforce it.

7.   Iraq has repeatedly used the haj to test the limits of the sanctions regime, which faces increasing opposition in the world body.

8.   One holds that Saddam stands on the brink of a major breakout into new power, with the sanctions regime moribund and the arms-limitation regime collapsing.

9.   The Clinton administration takes the position that the U.N. sanctions regime is not a mechanical process in which steps announced by Iraq bring automatic rewards.

10.   Under the U.N. sanctions regime, Saddam may use several billion dollars a year from crude oil exports to purchase humanitarian essentials such as food and medicine.