Sentence examples for sanction someone from inspiring English sources

But sometimes we have to sanction someone to help the clubs".

If, however, this strong consensus were enough to fire or sanction someone, then academic freedom would be meaningless.

After all, a court wouldn't sanction someone for calling people crazy who deny that smoking causes lung cancer or HIV causes AIDS.

Courts are supposed to put the policies of presidents and Congress to the test of judicial review, to evaluate decisions by the executive to sanction someone for wrongdoing and to resolve disputes between private parties.

It is not clear whether they would, say, sanction someone working 30 hours a week because they refuse for genuine personal reasons to move to another job offering 35 hours a week.

Given verbal abuse of a player "based on religion, race, colour, national or ethnic origin" carries a minimum four-week recommended sanction, someone somewhere has badly misjudged the situation.

The people hit by the bedroom tax are often the same people who have had their benefits sanctioned; someone who has lost their DLA may also have been falsely found "fit for work".

"Law consists of two things, the coercive power to impose a sanction on someone who violates it and the willingness of people to obey the law without actually putting it to the test.

Candidates had an automatic right to leave the placement within the first week but if they pulled out after that for "no good reason", they could face the same sanction as someone who did not turn up for their fortnightly signing-on interview.

A proposal in North Dakota would increase sanctions for someone who circulated a photo with the intention to humiliate the minor.

The UN's own watchdog on human rights argues that if good reasons exist for imposing sanctions on someone, he should be prosecuted.