smart sanction

smart sanction

n
(Law) (often plural) a sanction intended to affect only a particular area of a country's activities or economy
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Arms embargoes are a type of smart sanction (others include financial and travel sanctions) increasingly used in the post-Cold War era by the international community in responding to threats to peace and security.
They say they want the US Government to impose smart sanction against the administration to safe the future of the country.According to PAN Executive Director Rufus Neufville, smart sanctions have been imposed in various neighboring countries including Libya and on Former President Charles G.
He narrated that during the regime of former President Charles Taylor, when the United Nations placed sanctions on the regime, former President Sirleaf at the time termed it as 'smart sanctions' but everyone who residing here left the impact and Taylor and officials of government only.
We hear about our government using smart sanctions, smart bombs, and smart borders.
In a report issued earlier this year, the group which is opposed to the lift of sanctions called to focus on smart sanctions that spare the Sudanese people who were affected by the 20-year embargo.
The nine papers examine the legal basis of EU sanctions against Iran and Syria, the compatibility of targeted sanctions with human rights, and what the UN rule of law declaration means for UN smart sanctions. A short study explores the potential legal characterizations of State reactions to sanctions that are unlawful under international law.
TEHRAN (FNA)- US political scientist Johan Tures has called for slapping "smart sanctions" on Turkey over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent remarks about the efficiency of the German presidential system under Adolf Hitler.
details the opportunities to appeal so-called smart sanctions
Goldman and Elizabeth Rosenberg, surveys the historical record of the use by the United States of its economic and financial power and then evaluates the more recent use of so-called "smart sanctions," emphasizing the increasing application of financial sanctions to specific individuals and organizations in the target countries.
Bush's administration, with Under Secretary of the Treasury Stuart Levey and others taking the lead, who devised the smart sanctions that, once expanded upon and reinforced by Mr.
As a result, many observers have recently called on states to pursue smart sanctions to curtail trade in weapons and aviation parts, curb money laundering, and block accounts and money transfers in an effort to strike at the foundations of rogue regimes, guerrilla organizations or terrorist groups.
Generally speaking, use of smart sanctions should be expected, which will be reinforced in time and lead to increase of the transaction expenses and gradual decrease of the economic interdependency of the EU and Russia, Gligorov concludes.