in international diplomacy, 1919, plural of sanction (n.) in the sense of "part or clause of a law which spells out the penalty for breaking it" (1650s).
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1. The United States plans to tighten the economic sanctions currently in place.
美国计划加大现有经济制裁的力度。
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2. America won't countenance any such circumvention of the sanctions.
美国不会赞成任何规避制裁的行为。
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3. He expressed his opposition to the lifting of sanctions.
他对解除制裁表示反对。
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4. Our corre-spondent has been assessing the impact of the sanctions.
我们的记者一直在评估制裁带来的影响。
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5. The new measures are aimed at tightening existing sanctions.