sanctioned
Example Sentences
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China is Iran’s biggest oil customer and an important market preventing its heavily sanctioned economy from collapsing.
Before dawn on Dec. 10, U.S. forces captured the Guyana-flagged Skipper for allegedly transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran for years.
It was only in 2018 that the first sanctioned bare-knuckle bout for 130 years took place in the US state of Wyoming.
From BBC
Much of the extra crude hasn’t built up in storage hubs tied to benchmark pricing but instead as sanctioned crude lingering at sea, with tankers loaded with Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan barrels swelling inventories afloat.
On the flip side, if a diplomatic off-ramp is found, the world faces a situation where sanctioned oil that has built up on water could find its way to pricing hubs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.