That would have soon ended oil sanctions.

Baghdad, seeking a quick end to all oil sanctions, long resisted the program, and thus it did not actually get under way until late last year.

It is also apparently unwilling to consider outright oil sanctions against Sudan at a time when global energy prices are high.

But oil sanctions should be used sparingly and with restraint.

In the few days since the oil sanctions began on Tuesday, tensions have risen sharply as the gasoline supply has begun to dry up.

The resolution's direct linkage between arms control and oil sanctions is not simply a technicality.

The effect of threatened oil sanctions on Iranian businesses trading from Dubai.

The oil sanctions have already been relaxed to allow Iraq to earn money for food and medicine imports.

We cannot even get the Government to say that they will fully support oil sanctions against Yugoslavia.

The Minister of State said that the Greeks would not be too happy about imposing oil sanctions.