The answer should be A.present perfect
In the field of international politics, sanctions are an important tool for achieving peace, stability but also to further one's agenda.
Sanctions are by definition measures against a country that can restrict the country's ability to trade, transfer money, have military weapons or the cutoff of diplomatic relationships.
They are essentially only negative in nature, even though in sometimes the term sanctions has a positive connotation (the law sanctions this behaviour).
Hence, it is true.
It would probably be most likely the B persuasive speeches because critical listening is where you listen, judge, and analyze. Persuasive speeches are where someone is trying to convince you of something.
Figurative language uses figures of speech to provide more complex and intensified meaning to the subjects it describes. Connotative language uses cultural or emotional references that are shared and understood by a group of people sharing the same cultural markers in order describe the subject of such language and associate a positive or negative perception of it.
They are similar in that they both avoid using direct explicit, literal language to describe the subjects they are referring to and prefer to use oblique references to it.
