The sanctions, applied in May 1986, hit the program hard.

At European level, what we can do is apply effective sanctions against the leaders of the regime.

But there is no sign that any of the others are eager to apply sanctions.

In any case, diplomats said, an American decision to apply sanctions was "still some way off."

"Once we did that, applying sanctions was more or less automatic."

Let us move from words to deeds and actually apply proper economic sanctions.

It couldn't apply sanctions, as the West could have done.

The administration has a long record of opposing any congressional efforts that force its hand on how to apply sanctions.

Is applying sanctions this belatedly really going to help anything?

"If they are applying sanctions just for the sake of doing something, what good does that do the Haitian people?"