While proposing sanctions, the West also fears that they could trigger a rise in the oil price, damaging already fragile economies further.

Some have proposed international sanctions, others military intervention.

The next day, reporters wondered how a quarantine fit a policy of neutrality; was he proposing sanctions?

Cauchon formed part of a commission charged with proposing sanctions and reforms.

We haven't been asked to propose sanctions.

Rather, Amtrak proposes stiff criminal sanctions as the more appropriate punitive deterrent.

No, it proposed new sanctions at the UN.

Administration officials said that their basic plan was to propose tightened sanctions on trade with Belgrade.

The Bush administration has been far too timid in proposing punitive sanctions only for Janjaweed leaders.

Another area where the Commission is proposing criminal sanctions is the protection of intellectual property rights.