Sentence examples for states sanctioned from inspiring English sources

Some Senate Republicans, like Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, have said there might be a need for a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriages, if more states sanctioned them and the courts required other states to recognize them.

As the national and ideological battles of the Cold War moved into the sports arena, many states sanctioned sports development programs to create winning athletes to represent the nation at elite international competitions.

Kant is unclear regarding whether that coercive force is to be realized by joint action of member states, sanctioned by the federation, against a non-compliant member or by a distinct international force controlled by the federation itself.

The number of fans has grown with the number of states sanctioning the sport.

A lobbying effort led by Marc Ratner, vice president for regulatory affairs with the U.F.C., has led to 44 states sanctioning the sport.

Once the bill is signed by the governor, which is expected, it will raise the number of states sanctioning M.M.A. to 45.

(Forty-five sanctionancthen the sport).

Moreover, it's hard to imagine EU member states sanctioning their leader -- in 2011 Hungary is scheduled to take over the presidency of the EU Council.

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

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

But American officials never publicly identified the country where it originated, much less whether it was state sanctioned or the action of a group of hackers.