Sentence examples similar to sanction transformations from inspiring English sources
After the Communists broke off negotiations in 1987, the report says, Mrs. Aquino sanctioned the transformation of private armies and vigilante groups, outlawed in the 1987 Constitution, into paramilitary groups called Citizen's Armed Forces Geographical Units.
Mustafa Kemal then formed his own defense-of-rights group, and the national elections of 1923 (held after successes in the war of independence) not only unseated the parliamentary opposition but also sanctioned the transformation of Mustafa Kemal's group into a political party.
Due to war and international sanctions, Serbia has largely missed the market transformations that have occurred in most of Eastern Europe.
Prosecutors in the US are currently investigating high-ranking Venezuelan officials on the suspicion that they have sanctioned the country's transformation into a major hub for cocaine trafficking.
Transformation may be sanctioned from on high, but it is men and women in the middle who make it become reality, and that is a persuasive case in itself.
We conclude that transformations and changes taking place in the global energy market are likely to influence the design of future sanctions.
(Dave Kehr) Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions (Friday through Thursday) China's economic transformation during the last two decades has yielded some powerful and strikingly original documentaries and fiction films grounded in documentary observation, made both with and without government sanction.
The main sanction is embarrassment.
But is there official sanction?
