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Example sentences for: sanction

How can you use “sanction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving in on all occasions their effectual support.
The process usually takes too long, and in the final analysis, the most severe sanction the AICPA can impose is expulsion from the Institute.
While the state boards of accountancy have the ability to impose much stiffer sanctions, including revoking a CPA's license to practice in a state, these boards have not exercised this sanction very frequently.
It seems reasonable to assume that racquetball will prevail and that paddle-ball will eventually lose its official sanction and will be confined to a few die-hard eccentrics.
Rockefeller extended this sanction to collusion, secret agreements, corporate spying, bribery, and extortion.