More like navigate international sanctions to get her Venetian glass vase from Harrods delivered to Damascus.
Syria maintains support from ally Iran, though that source is also under pressure from international sanctions.
The combination of international sanctions and government neglect has brought ruin to Mesopotamia's famously fertile fields.
Libyan media said international sanctions imposed on the country after Lockerbie were a contributing factor.
Despite mounting opprobrium and stiff international sanctions, Syria is trapped in a grisly stalemate.
The former official cited difficulties dealing with British banks in the wake of international sanctions on Syria.
These commitments would have the force of domestic law, but would not be subject to international sanctions.
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It would be international sanctions, we would not get the same kind of imports that we would need.
Several commentators predict that Iran - already the subject of wide-ranging international sanctions - will face further isolation.
But without a formal resolution from the UN ending international sanctions, other forms of trade will prove difficult or impossible.
Iran, which is subject to an array of international sanctions, has long argued that its nuclear programme is for energy generation and research.
Less agreeable to Mr Milosevic is any tightening of the international sanctions against Yugoslavia, whose economy is as shaky as ever.
But, with a desire to skirt international sanctions and create more jobs, it has long wanted a car industry of its own.
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In neighboring Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic won a respite from international sanctions for his commitment to helping implement Dayton's war crimes provisions.
Similarly, they are against tougher international sanctions - which the Americans and the Europeans want to introduce if the Geneva talks go nowhere.
Mark Pieth, the chairman of an OECD working group on bribery, warns that British firms might face international sanctions if the delays continue.
Mofaz was reiterating a prevailing view among Kadima officials and other Israeli politicians that international sanctions targeting Iran and its nuclear program aren't working.
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Iran has been the target of various international sanctions, but it has long maintained that its nuclear program is for research and medical needs.
By implication, any unilateral American action against Saddam would shatter not only the Gulf war coalition but also such support as remains for international sanctions.
We will also work to ensure that international sanctions are enforced.
Last July a High Court ruled Mr Haw could continue his protest, which began initially over the international sanctions regime imposed against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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International sanctions over the North's nuclear program have isolated the country.
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President Barack Obama has made clear that he believes U.S. and international sanctions can curb Iran's nuclear program if they are given more time to work.
Some people suggest that Mr Netanyahu has deliberately stirred up this wave of speculation about an Israeli strike in an effort to stiffen international sanctions against Iran.
Somaliland, an independence-seeking statelet in the Horn of Africa, for example, has curbed the destruction of its ageing weapons because international sanctions stop it buying new ones.
Yet that support has evidently begun to wane among young, middle-class Indians, who have realized that international sanctions make it tougher to get student visas and jobs abroad.
Ironically, it may have been international sanctions, intended to punish Iran for its suspect nuclear programme, that at last persuaded its opponents of the need to scrap subsidies.
In the 1980s, he claims, he developed the technology for Saswitch, the system that linked up ATMs across South Africa, which, because of international sanctions, couldn't import existing technology.
International sanctions on Iran include a UN embargo on arms exports and nuclear technology as well as EU bans on most financial transactions as well as the purchase of crude oil.
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