31.   Where economists see legal sanctions purely as deterrence, one suspects that the majority of Americans see discrimination as immoral, and justify the penalities against discrimination as punishment.

32.   While protesting the sanctions as unnecessary, Taiwan did toughen its laws.

33.   Ahead of the meeting, officials expected the ministers to consider such sanctions as ending government guarantees for loans to companies doing business in Iran.

34.   Arab sentiment has been rising against the sanctions as falling heavily on Iraqi civilians.

35.   Bush said Saddam should not see any changes of the decade-old sanctions as a sign of weakness.

36.   But French diplomats instead indicated tougher sanctions as an option.

37.   But sanctions as an instrument of international pressure have fallen into disfavor within the United Nations.

38.   China also opposes sanctions as a matter of principle.

39.   Cook said he and Powell had agreed on a campaign to explain the sanctions as not punishing Iraqi people.

40.   Despite a recent easing of some sanctions, the government in Pyongyang remains under other sanctions as a sponsor of terrorism, said Perry.