1.   Among other restrictions, the sanctions bar international flights to and from Libya.

2.   Current U.S. sanctions bar some types of oil and gas trading with Libya, Iran, Iraq, Colombia and Azerbaijan, all major oil producers.

3.   He had to fly to Jordan from Tunisia because U.N. sanctions bar flights to and from his country.

4.   Previous sanctions had barred the sale of arms and restricted financial transactions.

5.   The sanctions barred the transfer of sensitive satellite systems for two years at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to American business.

6.   The sanctions barred the sale of arms and fuel to Unita.

7.   The sanctions bar Iraq from selling its oil or earning any revenue from it, among other things.

8.   Those sanctions still bar some high technology sales to China as well as transfers of military technology.

9.   Although the sanctions do not bar imports of food and medicine, Iraq has said the trade ban has left the country without the money to buy such goods.

10.   Although the sanctions have never barred food and medicine, such shipments require U.N. clearance.