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"Sanction" in a Sentence (16 examples)
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.
It is necessary to obtain the sanction of the authorities to enter this building.
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property.
Tom will never sanction this.
Tom is never going to sanction this.
They will not sanction copying without permission.
The EU is also calling for an investigation into the incident and is planning to sanction Belarusian officials responsible for the aircraft's diversion.
They will only receive legal sanction in the event that they are accepted by the first international congress of Esperantists to which this work, along with its preamble, is presented.
I think all of the countries what sanctioned Russia, are needed to sanction Belarus, too.
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The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.
The idea that it was more comfortable in the house than out of it, did much towards reconciling his lordship. He felt positively glad that, as his wife had acted without his sanction, she should be subject to all possible inconvenience, as if such could be felt in Henrietta's state of mind.
The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.
The school's inaction further sanctions this misbehavior.
Many of the most earnest Protestants were business men, to whom lending money at interest was essential. Consequently first Calvin, and then other Protestant divines, sanctioned interest.
The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found.
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