Internationally, restrictions upon trade and financial dealings that a country imposes upon another for political reasons, usually as punishment for following policies of which the sanctioning country disapproves.
Economic Sanctions
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 | Tutu, Desmond (South African prelate) |
| sanction (in law, ethics) |
| 2d earl of Victor Alexander George Robert Lytton Lytton (English statesman) |
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- League of Nations
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