The American action on Friday imposed stringent financial sanctions on the 22 groups.

Washington has applied stringent economic sanctions, which have crippled Panama's economy, in an effort to force him to give up power.

But he added that few stringent sanctions remained, beyond a ban on air travel in and out of the country.

The country has been under stringent sanctions for eight years.

Washington imposed stringent economic sanctions and promised that he would be gone in weeks.

Last year the House approved far-more stringent sanctions but the bill died without reaching the full Senate.

Without an international consensus on more stringent economic sanctions, the United States has few options, analysts said.

Each is also highly ambivalent about stringent sanctions, which are at the core of the strategy America wants to pursue.

It can therefore only be hoped that more stringent international sanctions will cause the military junta to mend its ideas.

Minors have to be protected in every possible way from alcohol, and to achieve this even more stringent sanctions are needed.