Sanction can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| sanction - give authority or permission to | ||
| sanction - give religious sanction to, such as through on oath; "sanctify the marriage" | ||
| sanction - give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies" | ||
Noun |
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| sanction - formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" | ||
| sanction - the act of final authorization; "it had the sanction of the church" | ||
| sanction - a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | ||
| sanction - official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times" |
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| 1. | noun | It had the sanction of the church. | |
| 2. | noun | His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family. | |
| 3. | noun | That requires the sanction of the government. | |
| 4. | noun | It is necessary to obtain the sanction of the authorities to enter this building. | |
| 5. | noun | 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. | |
| 6. | noun | Tom will never sanction this. | |
| 7. | noun | Tom is never going to sanction this. | |
| 8. | noun | They will not sanction copying without permission. | |
| 9. | noun | The EU is also calling for an investigation into the incident and is planning to sanction Belarusian officials responsible for the aircraft's diversion. | |
| 10. | noun | 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. |
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| It had the sanction of the church. |
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| 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. | |