Sentence examples for it has sanctioned from inspiring English sources
Unlike other Christian churches it has sanctioned apartheid.
It has sanctioned the firing of rockets, though mostly home-made and rarely lethal, at Israeli towns across from Gaza.
Tyson has switched to an unidentified medicine, something that the Michigan state boxing commission has cleared because it has sanctioned the fight.
It has sanctioned a cull of endangered great white sharks in Western Australia, permitted dredging spoil to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef and attempted to have ancient Tasmanian forests removed from the World Heritage List.
The Federal Trade Commission regulates the use of consumers' data on the Internet, and in the past it has sanctioned big companies like Facebook and Google over privacy issues.
On The Economist's count, the fresh capital investment it has sanctioned (rather than discussed or delegated to other bodies) amounts to 0.4% of GDP, spread over several years.Other measures are more useful.
Last summer, it emerged that it had sanctioned two memoranda redefining the concept of torture more narrowly.
T-Shirts to Forget A day before Boston and the Yankees started the American League Championship Series, Major League Baseball recalled a T-shirt it had sanctioned.
Others will praise the courts for forcing the UK to either openly admit the methods it had sanctioned, or else pay a financial penalty through compensation.
The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it had sanctioned the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria, along with a Lebanese-based subsidiary and Syriatel, the country's largest mobile telephone operator.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main militant group in the region, issued a statement on Saturday night saying that it had sanctioned the attack but did not participate.
