1.   American companies are unwilling to speculate on how possible future sanctions will hurt their sales in China.

2.   Administration officials admitted that the tightened sanctions could hurt average Cubans, the very people that Washington wants to help.

3.   But members of Congress, worried that those sanctions could hurt farmers and manufacturers, gave Clinton the authority to waive some of those.

4.   But the business community has found an unlikely ally in human rights activists, who argue that economic sanctions often hurt innocent civilians, most notably in Iraq.

5.   But the sanctions nonetheless hurt, and by last fall, Milosevic was looking for a deal to lift them.

6.   Canadian officials say the sanctions could hurt their companies.

7.   Economic sanctions now largely hurt the average Iraqi, not the regime.

8.   Hall, who recently returned from a trip to Iraq, said U.N. economic sanctions have hurt civilians there.

9.   Hall, who recently returned from a trip to Iraq, said U.N. economic sanctions have hurt millions of civilians there.

10.   International economic sanctions have hurt the economy of the Yugoslav federation, in which Serbia is dominant.