I was told I could not apply until I was actually sanctioned.
These oligopolies, which are actually sanctioned by the S.E.C., didn't merely do their jobs badly.
Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil.
But the discrepancy between the public line taken by groups like the Halal Food Authority, and the practice they will actually sanction, has made the whole matter rather delicate.
"As to whether the U.S. has actually sanctioned any firms for prohibited investments in Iran, there is not much of a track record," said Donald A. Weadon Jr., a Washington lawyer specializing in foreign trade sanctions.
Google, in contrast, actually sanctioned and hosted a worldwide employee demonstration on Monday and Sergey Brin attended a protest at San Francisco International Airport over the weekend.
One theory being quietly put forward in the Gulf is that while MBS wanted "something done" about Khashoggi's outspoken criticism, he never actually sanctioned murder, and that the man who ran his office, Sa'ud al-Qahtani, exceeded his orders while telling those taking part everything had sign-off from the crown prince.
While Richards, Gibson, and Dr. Laura revealed reprehensible prejudice, none of them actually sanctioned violence against the groups they denigrated.
Along with straightforward legitimisation of symptom severity – a theme which crops up in work on a variety of cancers (see, for example, [ 4, 29]) – such close networks can also perform the function of actually sanctioning a visit to the doctor.
