Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;

The Comoros were also used for the evasion of arms sanctions.

During the 1980s, CHOGMs were dominated by calls for the Commonwealth to impose sanctions on South Africa to pressure the country to end apartheid.

No sanctions were invoked on the opposition in the Central Committee following the decision.

On a separate matter, PNG Trade and Industry Minister Paul Tiensten was quoted in Fiji Village on 21 February 2006 as saying that sanctions against Fiji were being considered, following a Fijian refusal of a PNG kava shipment and an earlier rejection of corned beef shipped from PNG.

The outflows during 1984-1985 were largely the result of economic sanctions in response to apartheid.

The sanctions were vetoed by Russia and China.

After the end of the Gulf War and after the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, the sanctions were linked to removal of weapons of mass destruction by Resolution 687.

The economic sanctions were fully lifted in 24 May 2003, shortly after Saddam Hussein was overthrown.

After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a very poor country, and Turabi fell from favor.

Hart rejected Kelsen's views that sanctions were essential to law and that a normative social phenomenon, like law, can not be grounded in non-normative social facts.

But because no sanctions were sought against Germany, Ribbentrop could claim success.

In 1999, less than a decade after the UN sanctions were put in place, Libya began to make dramatic policy changes in regard to the Western world, including turning over the Lockerbie suspects for trial.

The Libyan government eventually surrendered the two Lockerbie bombing suspects in 1999 for trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands and UN sanctions were suspended.

The previously suspended UN sanctions were then cancelled.

The League of Nations condemned Italy's aggression and imposed economic sanctions in November 1935, but the sanctions were largely ineffective since they did not ban the sale of oil or close the Suez Canal ( controlled by Britain ).

The League sanctions were lifted on 4 July 1936, but by that point Italy had already gained control of the urban areas of Abyssinia.

The Abyssinian crisis showed how the League could be influenced by the self-interest of its members ; one of the reasons why the sanctions were not very harsh was that both Britain and France feared the prospect of driving Mussolini and German dictator Adolf Hitler into an alliance.

Its two most important members, Britain and France, were reluctant to use sanctions and even more reluctant to resort to military action on behalf of the League.

Ladas were sold as a budget ' no-frills ' vehicle in several Western nations during the 1970s and 1980s, including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, though trade sanctions banned their export to the United States.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced plans in the spring of 2012 for a “ targeted easing ” of sanctions to allow American dollars to enter the country, but companies could not move ahead until the sanctions were formally suspended.

Acknowledging the lack of progress in relation to bilateral relations and the internal situation following the position adopted in 1997, the EU adopted a step-by-step approach in 1999, whereby sanctions would be gradually lifted upon fulfillment of the four benchmarks set by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

In June later that year, the African Union ( AU ) lifted sanctions against the country, which had been applied after the 2003 coup.

The UN eventually lifted these sanctions ( with Resolution 1506 ) in 2003 when Libya " accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials, renounced terrorism and arranged for payment of appropriate compensation for the families of the victims.

By 2004 George W. Bush had lifted the economic sanctions and official relations resumed with the United States.

Despite Ekéus ' belief that Iraq was nearly certifiable as being free of such weapons, U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that United Nations sanctions would not be lifted until such time as Hussein was no longer in power.

The final international sanctions against the nation, which had been in place since the passage of United Nations Security Council resolution 724 in December 1991, were lifted in January 2001 and in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro officially dissolved into two separate states.

The final sanctions against the nation were lifted in January 2001 and in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro officially dissolved into two separate states.

The government lifted the trade embargo, flight restrictions, and financial sanctions in place since August 1990.

On October 15, 2003, the Federal Council ended the import restrictions on raw diamonds from Sierra Leone and lifted sanctions against Libya.

However, the Syrian government accepted UNSCR 1483 ( after being absent for the actual vote ), which lifted sanctions on Iraq and established a framework to assist the Iraqi people in determining their political future and rebuilding their economy.

The United Nations sanctions placed upon Iraq when it invaded Kuwait were not lifted, blocking Iraqi oil exports.

Turunen said the visit was inconclusive, but promising enough for the EU to " analyze " to see if the sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan could be lifted.

" If the sanctions are lifted, a " Cooperation Council " meeting with Foreign Minister Norov will take place in Brussels later this autumn.

* July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31.

The OAS finally lifted sanctions against the country upon the formation of the council.

With the fall of Diệm, various American sanctions that were imposed in response to the repression of the Buddhist crisis and the attacks by Nhu's Special Forces on the Xá Lợi pagoda were lifted.

The UN has lifted sanctions and Liberia is now a member of the Kimberley Process.

Austria, in turn, threatened to veto all applications by countries for EU membership until the sanctions were lifted.

Later U. S .- led inspections agreed that Iraq had earlier abandoned its WMD programs, but asserted Iraq had an intention to pursue those programs if UN sanctions were ever lifted.

Syria would have liked to see the crippling UN sanctions on Iraq lifted.

In the mid-1990s, France, Russia and other members of the UN Security Council asked for sanctions on Iraq to be lifted.

* Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions are not lifted by August 31, 1995 August 1995