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Example sentences for: sanction

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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.
A judge in Hawaii ruled this week that the state's constitutional prohibition against sex discrimination requires it to give legal sanction to same-sex marriages.
WTO negotiation position does not include the sanction idea.
And a chance to remove trade disputes from the cycle of unilateral sanction and subsequent retaliation would be lost as well.
Would not use food as a unilateral sanction or diplomatic weapon.