Sentence examples for first sanctioning from inspiring English sources

This, and other factors, led to the shortening of world title bouts to 12 rounds, but the WBC also became the first sanctioning organisation to mandate electroencephalograms for all fighters competing for their belt.

Kuscsik had won the first sanctioned Boston Marathon for women two months earlier.

Mike's father, Pat, competed in one of the first sanctioned roller skating races, in 1938.

The CAF said it was only the first sanction and Kabylie face more punishment.

In December, Ziegler fought her first sanctioned amateur bout, winning an easy decision.

In the memo, Mr. Romney's advisers adopted the language of the Bush administration lawyers who first sanctioned torture.

Russian authorities have banned four athletes for doping offences, their first sanctions since the country's global ban from competition.

Infantino remains confident that the rules, which could see the first sanctions being applied in 2014-15, "have teeth".

On Sept. 27, 1862, Butler mustered the First Regiment of Louisiana Native Guards into Union service, making it the first sanctioned regiment of African-American troops in the United States Army.

The ban was one of the first sanctions Tehran asked to be lifted, points out Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a Washington-based think-tank.

Syriatel is owned by Rami Makhlouf, a powerful businessman and a cousin of the president who was first sanctioned by the United States in 2008.