However, it will be an uphill battle to get the council to impose sanctions on Iran.
In such circumstances, diplomats believe, the United States would be obliged to impose sanctions on India too.
Additionally, Clinton is bound by U.S. law to impose sanctions on any state that explodes a nuclear bomb.
UN's secretary-general, urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on the two countries to force them out of Congo.
Either way, he does not expect the Americans to impose sanctions on Total, a French firm making a huge investment in Iran.
The UN Security Council has threatened to impose sanctions on Sudan and South Sudan if the two nations fail to halt the recent violence.
Enforcement on the other hand refers to the ability of the public or the institution responsible for accountability to impose sanctions on the offending party (individual or institution).
After he fled abroad in 1994, Soyinka became a self-appointed diplomat who campaigned against Abacha's regime and encouraged Western countries to impose sanctions on the Nigerian government and its allies.
The United States has led a campaign at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Taleban government, which ironically includes a ban on most air travel to and from Afghanistan.
But he called for reform of the stability of growth pact, arguing it needed to encompass public debt as well as deficits, and make it easier to impose sanctions on wayward signatories.
"To be an observer, you have to be objective and once you impose sanctions on one party, your objectivity goes up in smoke, " Mr Mumbengegwi, a Zanu-PF member, is quoted as saying.
In Scotland, the devolved administration has already tightened dog-control legislation, enabling enforcement officers to impose sanctions on the owners of out-of-control dogs and extending the criminal law on dog control to cover attacks taking place on private property.
And Henman called on the tennis authorities to impose stringent sanctions on players if they are found to have been involved in betting irregularities.
Where Cites really packs a punch is in its ability to impose trade sanctions on any country that over-exports a restricted species.
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When those who make bad decisions are not bailed out but bear the consequences of their actions, markets quickly self correct and impose just sanctions on the imprudent and greedy.
The Sun executive has testified three times against Microsoft in the effort by nine state attorneys general to impose tougher sanctions on the software giant in the wake of its antitrust ruling.
The African Union said earlier Tuesday that it would impose more sanctions on Mali, one day after the Economic Community of West African States slapped the junta with travel and economic restrictions.
The African Union said Tuesday it will impose more sanctions on the country, one day after the Economic Community of West African States slapped the ruling military junta with travel and economic restrictions after last month's coup.
Beyond that, as former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton noted this week in The Wall Street Journal, even if the West were to impose such sanctions on Iran today, they would not impact the Iranian military's ability to operate.
He called on UEFA to impose "tough sanctions" on racism while sports minister Hugh Robertson has written to European governing body's president Michel Platini following "extreme provocation and racism" during Tuesday game.
Hence Mr Eizenstat's new campaign to impose order on sanctions.
So this moved them one step farther away from not having sanctions impose this action on the part of the president.
This freeze in relations with Brazil, and Iran's gradual loss of allies in the region, also opens up further opportunity for the United Nations to impose and enforce additional sanctions on Iran.
Things could get worse still, as the European Union prepares to toughen broad sanctions and to impose specific ones on businessmen close to Mr Lukashenka.
One thing the London extravaganza brought home is the awkward fact that there are not many sanctions a bishop can impose on an errant clergyman unless the incumbent literally goes mad.
Only a few months ago ASEAN leaders were talking about setting up a regional human-rights body and adopting a strong new charter that would, for the first time, impose binding decisions on member countries and sanctions against wayward ones.
And he expressed surprise that the United Nations would impose sanctions and implement a travel ban based purely on media reports.
It would have the power to impose sanctions, such as fines, censures and a ban on auditing public firms.
The UN Security Council is to meet later on Monday, and is expected to impose sanctions against the two warring countries.
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