Sentence examples for had official sanction from inspiring English sources

They behaved as they did because they believed they had official sanction to do so.

That Moro was kidnapped by a disciplined unit in a country where organisation and efficiency were unknown must have meant that the Red Brigades had official sanction and foreign help.

Their intolerance now seemed to have official sanction.

Perhaps the most dramatic form of censorship in Christendom was that displayed in the development by the Roman Catholic Church of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of proscribed books, the origins of which go back (in a primitive form) to the 5th century ce and which continued to have official sanction well into the 20th century.

As the authors conclude, France does not have official, sanctioned guidelines for withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining therapies, which may limit end-of-life decision-making in the ICU.

And though it was strictly true that Tony Canning ended up recruiting me for MI5, his motives were complicated, and he had no official sanction.

He was also warned that, although Allen's effort had no official sanction, his men were unlikely to serve under anyone else.

In the US, cosmetic gynaecology may have the official sanction of reality TV (doctors have performed it on the wildly popular plastic surgery makeover show Dr 90210) but the same cannot be said of the peer organisations.

Peter Cummings, once head of commercial lending at Bank of Scotland, is the only HBOS executive to have faced official sanction from the now-defunct Financial Services Authority (FSA) – an action he complains was unwarranted scapegoating.

"BBC editorial standards of offence and harm have been trashed to defend the BBC's so-called 'flagship' programme and over 100,000 Gypsy and Traveller children are now open to even more abuse in the playground – abuse that has the official sanction of the BBC Trust".

The demonstration did not have the official sanction of Moscow's mayor, making it technically illegal.That, along with the biting cold and a sense of frustration that marked the anniversary of the 2011 protests, meant the crowd was smaller than before.