31.   The United States has passed sanctions acts to punish people from investing in what it considers rogue states, including Cuba, Libya and Iraq.

32.   Vietnamese lawmakers said they fear the U.S. Senate will also pass the act after the trade agreement is approved.

33.   Vietnamese lawmakers said they fear the U.S. Senate will also pass the act once the trade agreement is approved.

34.   He noted that since the act was passed US trade with several African nations had boomed.

35.   National, which passed the act, wants it maintained.

36.   The act was passed to allow government to take swift action on a crippling water crisis affecting metropolitan Manila at the time.