Sentence examples for state sanction from inspiring English sources

Some do feel the heavy weight of state sanction, however.

This almost certainly means some state sanction or involvement - perhaps even a "shopping list" of requirements.

How can any civilised state sanction a system that allows no scope for the correction of injustice?

The comments were the first by Mr. Ashcroft suggesting that the terrorists had operated with state sanction.

In court papers, Mr. Leavitt charged that Mr. Green had been able to elude prosecution by marrying without state sanction.

Mr. Ashcroft is a fervent opponent of abortion and, like many social and religious conservatives, sees any state sanction of suicide in the same light.

In fact, says Pierrat, diamond theft was originally state sanctioned.

In his eyes such a requirement amounted to the state sanctioning abortions.

"I can't imagine bigger quantities of weapons being moved without state sanctioning," he said.

"This raises the spectre of de facto state sanctioning of slavery in 21st century Europe".

"My anticipated death sentence," he wrote in the journals, "will be a state sanctioned murder of mercy".