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Example sentences for: sanction

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The Protestant Reformation provided divine sanction for making money, earning profits, and engaging in commerce.
And a chance to remove trade disputes from the cycle of unilateral sanction and subsequent retaliation would be lost as well.
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.
Obviously, impeachment was designed as a sanction that would regulate presidential conduct, a feature utterly lost if it were to become a dead letter.
The existing mechanisms for handling terrorist acts had been trial and punishment for acts committed by individuals; sanction, reprisal, deterrence, or war for acts by hostile governments.