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What will be the prepositions in the following sentence:
"The authority was preparing narrow, targeted XY (any organization) sanctions __ Steven's academy and could roll __ the punitive measures __ the year-end," said the official who spoke on condition __ anonymity.
MY ASSUMPTIOON: for , at, down , of.
You have several choices:
For targetting sanctions, you might use
sanctions at Steven's academy
sanctions for Steven's academy
for delivering something:
roll out
to give a time frame:
before the year-end
by the year-end
at the year-end
usually "the" would not be included.
And the final one is an idiom:
on condition of anonymity
