Sentence examples for explicitly sanctioned from inspiring English sources

It was never explicitly sanctioned by this Government until 1940, and never tested against the Constitution until this day.

Saladin's remission of all taxes not explicitly sanctioned by Islamic law must have contributed to his own popularity as well as to the stability of his regime.

Such a court, explicitly sanctioned by Congress, would have greater legitimacy than our current patchwork system, both in the United States and abroad.

Taymiyya, a somewhat curmudgeonly Islamic purist, had been outspoken in his opposition to almost everything that was not explicitly sanctioned by the Koran and the Prophet and his intransigence several times led him into conflict with the Mamelukes and, consequently, imprisonment.

Maybe the country will revert to the situation of the last few years, where there was little official tolerance for street protests, and any activists who did not stick strictly to what they had been explicitly sanctioned to do would find themselves roughed up and clamped in detention.

It is "no business of unelected judges," Scalia asserts, to find unconstitutional a "mode of punishment that is explicitly sanctioned by the Constitution".

A November 27 2002 memo explicitly sanctions measures outlawed under the Geneva convention, such as forcing detainees to stand for up to four hours.

Citing a book by international lawyer Philippe Sands QC, the paper says Lord Goldsmith's full advice to the prime minister suggested he push for second UN resolution explicitly sanctioning military action.

It routinely sanctioned an explicitly Christian prayer in an environment where non-Christian citizen-participants could easily feel coerced into participation lest they alienate the very officials before whom they presumably had business.

Sufferers were sought out and actively treated; however, governmental efforts to prevent Asian rickets remained focused not on the provision of attractive supplements, or fortified staple foods, or brighter dwellings, but on educational programs explicitly designed to change culturally sanctioned behavior and dietary choices, and to encourage assimilation.

Mrs. Merkel stopped short of explicitly mentioning sanctions, but also appeared determined to support current negotiations in the Security Council on the issue.