The nation cannot impose justice as foreign victors might on a defeated army.

They will never be at peace, no matter what the United Nations or any other organization imposes on them.

The United Nations imposed a trade embargo and economic sanctions.

If the decision is upheld in a final report next month, other nations can impose trade sanctions of similar value against the United States.

The economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations in the early 1990s brought most of that to a halt.

Western nations currently impose sanctions on Burma, and one of the key reasons is political prisoners.

It is within the power of the regime to have the sanctions imposed by the United Nations lifted.

The thing had occurred often in international affairs, when criminal nations imposed their iron will upon others that favored harmony and order.

And yet nations can impose enormous costs on their citizens when they take extraordinary efforts to maintain independent currencies.

But so, too, are modern international sanctions, like those imposed by the United Nations against Iraq in the 1990's.