Sentence examples for sanctioned. from inspiring English sources
It also added that when this still-classified information was published, the CIA did not, as a matter of policy, submit crime reports – highlighting a gulf between officially sanctioned leaks and non-sanctioned whistleblowing, the latter of which is often heavily prosecuted.
In response, Karimov launched a far-reaching crackdown on all forms of religious expression not expressly sanctioned by the state.
The governor of the Krasnodar region apologised for the actions of the Cossacks, who are being used as informal security at the Olympics, but the presence of many plainclothes security officers suggested their actions were sanctioned.
The Independent Monitoring Commission today concluded that the UVF leadership had sanctioned the 44-year-old's murder.
This is clearly sanctioned, even driven by the country's leadership.
Lawyers have written to London's mayor threatening legal action after he sanctioned the construction of "unlawful" fences around the square, which campaigners claim are a deliberate attempt to stop them protesting peacefully.
Cases like this keep coming his way, he says: "They miss an appointment so their benefits are sanctioned [docked or stopped altogether], so they have no money, so they steal".
Concern is mounting that British aid money may be funding programmes for police who are using rape as a tool of state-sanctioned torture against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Carr said the preference would be for a UN-sanctioned action, but if that was not possible, "the sheer horror" of the attack mandated a response.
This colourful innovation can obviously be traced directly to the Packer incursion, but things didn't actually get off to a great in the first officially-sanctioned summer of one-day in Australia in 1979-80.
Everything is fucked," said Anton Krasovsky, a former state television presenter who was chief of staff to oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov when he ran against Putin as a Kremlin-sanctioned pseudo-opposition candidate in 2012.
