[ UK /sˈɑːnkʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈsæŋkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. official permission or approval
    authority for the program was renewed several times
  2. formal and explicit approval
    a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement
  3. a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
  4. the act of final authorization
    it had the sanction of the church
VERB
  1. give religious sanction to, such as through on oath
    sanctify the marriage
  2. give authority or permission to
  3. give sanction to
    I approve of his educational policies
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How To Use sanction In A Sentence

  • 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. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • 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.
  • In the Qing Dynasty, the officials's penal system includes two parts: disciplinary sanction and penal punishment.
  • It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [ The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • Sexual pleasure between Greek male citizens and boys was legitimate and socially sanctioned, however if the boy become a free citizen (an equal) their sexual practice become problematised.
  • And he warned Teheran it faces ever increasing sanctions if it refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment.
  • War as the ultimate sanction was not a credible solution.
  • Let us adopt then words sanctioned by usage, and give the distinction between intelligence and instinct this more precise formula: _Intelligence, in so far as it is innate, is the knowledge of a_ form; _instinct implies the knowledge of a_ matter. Evolution créatrice. English
  • First, the impact of the sanctions on the population tend to make the latter even more dependent on the government than before, mainly for provision of the basic rations needed for survival.
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