31.   Increased sanctions will hurt the Libyan economy.

32.   Iran maintains that the sanctions have hurt U.S. firms more than they have hurt it.

33.   Japan is also warning Washington that the threatened auto sanctions would hurt the United States as well as Japan.

34.   Such trade sanctions would have hurt Hong Kong because the territory depends heavily on the China trade.

35.   The government says the sanctions are seriously hurting the Iraqi people.

36.   The lawmakers argued that sanctions hurt the military junta more than the average population in Burundi, where most people live from subsistence farming.

37.   The stated goal of the proposed measures is to ensure that sanctions do not hurt Iraqi citizens while preventing Baghdad from reviving its weapons-building programs.

38.   The sanctions could hurt Russia, which uses the former Soviet Baltic nations for oil and other energy exports to the north.

39.   The sanctions could also hurt ethnic Russians in Latvia.

40.   The stated goal of the British plan is to ensure that sanctions do not hurt Iraqi citizens while preventing Baghdad from reviving its weapons-building programs.