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sanction English

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What does sanction mean?
Definitions in simple English

sanction Noun

— A sanction is an approval by an authority that makes something valid. — A sanction is a penalty, punishment intended to ensure compliance. Sanctions were placed on the company by the government.

sanction Verb

— If something is being sanctioned, it was given official authorization or approval. The scheme was sanctioned by the court.

sanction

— verb (= approve) give sanction to I approve of his educational policies — noun (= endorsement) formal and explicit approval a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement — noun a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards — verb give authority or permission to — verb give religious sanction to, such as through on oath sanctify the marriage — noun the act of final authorization it had the sanction of the church — noun (= authority) official permission or approval authority for the program was renewed several times

Synonyms sanction synonyms

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sanction English » English

approval permission approve authorize authorization ratify ratification punishment approbation countenance authorise permit authority penalty pass imprimatur endorse confirm allow warrant penalize consent confirmation authorisation okay leave endorsement approbate verify say-so recognize recognise mandate license let indorsement enactment empower corroborate certification assent adopt acceptation acceptance O.K. visa validate undertake take up take

Topics sanction topics

What do people use sanction to talk about?
Language and thought Think Opinion

Approve of something
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Give permission

Conjugation sanction conjugation

How do you conjugate sanction?

sanction · verb

Examples sanction examples

How do I use sanction in a sentence?

Simple sentences

His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
That requires the sanction of the government.

Movie subtitles

The Pope won't sanction it!
I lent my sanction to this inquiry with a heavy heart but a duty seen must be discharged.
As Andy's commanding officer, I certainly can't sanction this behavior.
You deliberately launched that rocket without waiting for official sanction.
If the whole world waited for official sanction, it would be standing still.
With or without God's sanction. I tell you, as your king, this cannot be.
Sir Thomas, it states in the preamble that the King's former marriage. to the Lady Catherine was unlawful. she being his brother's widow and the Pope having no authority to sanction it.
I can't sanction it.
How, then, can the Lord sanction such neglect?
So that's why you're working without official sanction.
Friend, I cannot sanction this violence and destruction.
The Minister would never sanction it.
We want you to sanction them.
With or without God's sanction, I tell you as your king this cannot be.
Just because you go out with your border guard is no reason for me.to sanction any Moabite you let into our land.
Sir Thomas, it states in the preamble that the King's former marriage to the Lady Catherine was unlawful she being his brother's widow and the Pope having no authority to sanction it.
The Church cannot sanction.
Sanction? You wanted a church.
Apparently I know Marsh Tracy a lot better than you do, because I know he'd never sanction anything like that.
The key problem is the degree of the economic sanction.
What she really wants is for us to go begging to her. get her sanction, permission from the queen to gather in the streets.
Your sanction for his rule.
Ah, the church does not sanction extremes of any kind.
It would be enough to dismiss him. Bah! The boss of such an important newspaper should really sanction the headlines before the paper goes to print.
As you can see, as Lord Mayor, I've had to sanction some radical redevelopments.
It was done without official sanction of any kind.
In general, going to the Reichsfuhrer of the SS without Schellenberg's sanction, was a rough violation of subordination.
Suggest a community sanction.
Then perhaps we could apply the ultimate sanction.
You nearly had the sanction programmes running.

News and current affairs

Under its current rules, three big countries (France, Germany, and Italy) could--and probably would--block the sanction.
Kennedy felt stuck: Should he sanction the planned CIA invasion of Cuba or veto it?
Her sentence was roundly supported by modernist Muslim intellectuals, who insisted that the punishment was justly applied and cannot be questioned because it has divine sanction.
Gorbachev refused to sanction the use of force to put down demonstrations.
Biotechnology industries flourish, with state sanction and support, because they add extra value to the body, the object of supreme worth to us.
Would Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzkhov, a loyal creature of Putin, have dared to attend the rally where autonomy was demanded without the sanction of the Kremlin's elected monarch?
Many countries under sanction, such as Myanmar, become sources of global illegal trafficking in drugs, arms, money laundering, and forced labor.
For there is nothing at hand to replace the legitimizing sanction provided by the Wahhabis.
Ostensibly, the purpose of the Parliament's censure motion was to sanction the Commission for what was alleged to be the maladministration of the European Union's 1996 budget; and there were (and remain) accusations in the air of fraud and corruption.
One of the central dilemmas of the European Union's institutional structure is that a comprehensive vote of censure is the only instrument allowed under the Treaty by which the European Parliament can sanction the Commission.
There is no provision for the Parliament to register even a moderate protest or a targeted sanction against detailed elements of the record of the European executive.
Which means that they will be compelled to recognise that the Parliament should have the right to a more extensive, a more flexible, and a more democratic, power of sanction.
Russian and Chinese reticence about pressuring governments that deserve censure and sanction stems partly from such concerns; the absence of consensus on Syria is just one result.
The Republicans' defeat in this month's mid-term Congressional elections is a sign that Americans want to sanction their leaders for their strategic and ethical shortcomings, and they did so with gusto.
What died with the Security Council's unwillingness to sanction force to implement its own resolutions on Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction was the decades-old fantasy of the UN as the bedrock of world order.
Hence, its silence appears to sanction the situation.
The return of the state, even when it is the power of the European Commission to sanction Microsoft, is on everyone's lips.
The UN sanction vote was also heavily influenced by another small country with a Weltpolitik: Israel.

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