Sentence examples for effectively sanctioned from inspiring English sources

In some cases, like the West Side of Manhattan, they effectively sanctioned tearing down vital neighborhoods to achieve their end.

Congressional leaders from both parties stood by a program that they had effectively sanctioned through the passage of counterterrorism laws over the years.

In the United States, the F.T.C. in 2011 exempted so-called first-party advertisers, which include the world's biggest Web businesses, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, arguing that consumers effectively sanctioned their data collection by choosing to use their services.

Last week, however, Google reached a long-awaited settlement with HRMC – in which it agreed to pay £130m in back taxes and bear a greater tax burden in future – that effectively sanctioned its continued use of Irish companies to book UK sales.

Network Rail has a vested interest so it seems strange that they effectively sanctioned it.

In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai signed a law that effectively sanctions marital rape.

The current E.U. position of denying Ukraine an Association Agreement would effectively sanction the entire country for the sins of the Yanukovich administration.

Whether it was moral for Guzmán to effectively sanction Penn by meeting him is something that has been hotly debated in some quarters.

Rights groups are considering legal action against North Carolina after the government adopted a law that critics say effectively sanctions the discrimination of LGBT people.

But it created an outcry in international capitals that resulted in waivers being granted to non-US oil majors, effectively sanctioning American oil companies instead of Iran.

Then our governments will back their renewed vicious repression - just as the US and Britain did in Iraq, with a policy of effectively sanctioning the resumption of torture when the population became uppity and objected to the occupation.