Sentence examples for given official sanction from inspiring English sources

We live in an age when many bigotries have been given official sanction.

But after the restoration of political democracy in 1974, linguistic democracy followed suit, and Demotic literally, the "popular" language was given official sanction.

Consequently, the theater switched the order of the two plays and the audience was given official sanction to leave at intermission.

This idea was developed and given official sanction at the second Council of Orange (529), which declared that the beginning and even the desire of faith was the result of the gift of grace.

Fellow travelers were given official sanction in the early Soviet regime; they were regarded somewhat as experts who were filling the literary gap until the eventual emergence of a true proletarian art one by and for the proletariat that would be free of all bourgeois influence.

One member, Adel Afifi, said: "Women contribute 100% to their rape because they put themselves in that position [to be raped]." Such comments reflect an arch-conservative belief that women should stay at home with their families rather than engage in the political process – a view that was given official sanction following the election of Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, as head of state.

When the government gave official sanction to some evangelical Protestant churches a decade ago, almost none of the 400 churches in the Central Highlands were included.

Indigenous leaders applauded the decision, which gives official sanction to Aboriginal athletes to carry the red, yellow and black flag during a victory lap.

But mandatory ratings appear to give official sanction to judgments that may be of little real value to fund investors or, worse, give investors an unjustified confidence in a particular fund's prospects.

His murderer, one of his bodyguards, said this was why the governor was killed.The wider horrorIn this section The battle ahead Frozen out The big mo A necessary secession A good man who did something ReprintsThe blasphemy law is bad enough in itself, but it also gives official sanction to a growing atmosphere of religious intolerance in Pakistan.

McCain's reference to the Court's "discourse" on the law of "other nations" refers to Kennedy's observation of the "stark reality that the United States is the only country in the world that continues to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty".