Sentence examples for a sanction from inspiring English sources

A sanction is one thing, an execution is another.

It is a sanction best used sparingly, if at all.

So, probably, the umpires don't have a sanction.

We'll do everything to stop you having a sanction".

But once a government uses disenfranchisement as a sanction, it is tempted to take things further.

The threat of a sanction is really going to stop that happening.

I mean, stop, look, and listen before you impose a sanction".

Their ritual authority is thus a sanction for their secular and domestic authority.

In the hearing, a lawyer for the city, Diep Nguyen, argued that a sanction was inappropriate.

The GMC successfully appealed this decision, resulting in a sanction of erasure from the medical register.

A company can't simply treat a sanction regime as a traffic light.