Sentence examples for less sanction from inspiring English sources

Structural incompatibility: A powerful twice-divorced male will be unable to acknowledge, much less sanction, the ambitions of a much younger female mate.

In the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping "enforcers" have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth".

"In the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth".

As a trade-off, the politicians were more or less sanctioned to file £20,000 ($31,000) of expenses a year, with no questions asked leading to now infamous claims for an ornamental duck-house and some pornographic videos.

Secondarily, I wanted to hang out with the proper art students who were cool, sardonic, wore hipster clothes, and inhabited a separate annex building where music was allowed, smoking was more or less sanctioned, and you could see the rugby team practising on the pitch.

In those days, no movement in Judaism, including my own, knowingly ordained gay people, much less sanctioned their marriages.

When John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote that line on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the Beatles' most iconic albums, they were speaking for a generation concerned with love and friendship and maybe a few slightly less sanctioned social activities.

The agency could have imposed a lifetime suspension and a $1 million fine, but decided on a less severe sanction.

"There is also the view that when white investigators commit an infraction, measures are taken by management to cover up the infraction ('make it go away') or impose a less severe sanction," Mr. Andrews wrote.

This punishment, but not the guilty verdict, was overturned on appeal last year, after which Microsoft accepted a less painful sanction: a bundle of restrictions on its conduct agreed with the Department of Justice and nine of the 18 states that were co-plaintiffs in the case.

Where this was done, the frequency of regulatory visits and severity of sanctions were linked to regulatory compliance, with lower frequency and less severe sanctions being blamed for poor compliance.