Difference between measure and sanction
Definitions
noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
verb
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
Examples
Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
Based upon analysis of duplicate samples, reproducibility was better than 3% of the measured concentration of each element.
It would not be so bad if these tests were actually based on science or some objective measure but they are usually exercises in bureaucratic futility.
Definitions
noun
- official permission or approval
- formal and explicit approval
- a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
- the act of final authorization
verb
- give religious sanction to, such as through on oath
- give authority or permission to
- give sanction to
Examples
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
a demarche is the strongest sanction a country can exercise against another.
To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
