Sentence examples for social sanction from inspiring English sources

One side argued that no consensual act should be punishable by either law or social sanction.

"There is no social sanction against saying you don't like fat people," Mr. Nosek said.

Except that shame is an external force; pretty much by definition, it's a social sanction, not a psychological barrier.

The true punishment is "the social sanction for getting penalized," said Yukikazu Komiyama, an official with the Ministry of Transportation.

Strategies like this can be carried out at the level of society, by rules or social sanction, and surely help to explain Americans' extraordinary flight from addictive behavior in recent years — so sudden that it resembles a concert-hall panic.

They were meant to communicate the insight that interrupting the ceaseless round of striving requires a surprisingly strenuous act of will, one that has to be bolstered by habit as well as by social sanction.

Some social sanctions are less effective than others.

Aren't social sanctions more powerful than legal penalties anyway?

We are already beginning to see social sanctions regarding the use of cell phones.

What happened to religious, legal or social sanctions against the irresponsible abandonment of a pregnant woman?

By lifting the regulatory sanctions on short selling, the S.E.C. might help to weaken the social sanctions.