Sentence examples for sanction is broken from inspiring English sources

They appear especially when a social norm involving a guardian-spirit sanction is broken.

The sanctions are breaking down.

"The sanctions are breaking everyone's knees," said Afshin.

And the fact is, that the sanctions were breaking down.

Washington, which consistently opposes killing whales for scientific research, is reviewing the remote possibility of sanctions, even though Iceland is breaking no laws.

And most laws also contain a sanction if they are broken – fines, penalties, even imprisonment.

In fact, one of the most important messages to convey is also one of the simplest: talk to colleagues about what they are doing, provide clear limits and make it clear that there are sanctions if those limits are broken.

Treaties, after all, are not legal documents but political ones; they register commitments made by governments but threaten no sanctions if those commitments are broken or abrogated, apart from disapproval.

"It is ludicrous that rules can be broken without sanction and so we must see systematic change to restore confidence and standards.

"Only in this way will we prove that we cannot be broken with sanctions and threats".

They have been broken by sanctions, crushed by tyranny and annihilated by the doctrine of overwhelming force.