Most modern cases of sanctions pit a large country against a small country, though there are a few cases involving countries of equal size, such as the long quarrel, from the 1950s to the 1980s, between the United Kingdom and Spain over Gibraltar.
大部分现代制裁往往是大国和小国的对立，但也有一些例子发生在对等国家之间，比如20世纪50年代至80年代英国和西班牙因为直布罗陀的反目。