Even the toughest of all sanctions regimes in history becomes harder to sustain over time.

And you also ignore the sanctions regime instituted by Washington.

Russia's "political" objections to the current sanctions regime might be better described as humanitarian ones.

And although the sanctions regime contributed to our initial policy goals, our work is far from finished.

I'm not interested in waiting months for a sanctions regime to be in place.

"We have been successful, through the sanctions regime, to really shut off most of the revenue that will be going to rebuild his military."

The sanctions regime must be further developed so that Iraq cannot produce or bring online weapons of mass destruction.

And there was another blow to the sanctions regime last week.

We will work with our allies to re-energize the sanctions regime.

Doesn't that affect the overall solidarity of the sanctions regime, call it into question somewhat?