Sentence examples for that sanction from inspiring English sources

Another observation from the Oxford data is that sanction rates fall across the board in December.

India has worked hard to change patriarchal traditions that sanction child marriage, a practice that is illegal yet persists.

Hi-tech weaponry can inflict considerable damage on the military infrastructures of government that sanction such savagery.

Women demand equal inheritance rights and the abolition of laws that sanction "honour" crimes and forbid them from leaving Iraq without a male guardian.

The decision of an internal party committee to suspend Lord Rennard's membership followed his suggestion that the peer should say sorry to his accuser or face that sanction.

And one day soon -- depending on which party controls the government purse -- why not subsidize scripts and ads that sanction, or discourage, abortion?

Episcopalians voted at their convention last summer to authorize an official liturgy for blessing same-sex unions, bringing the church in line with other liberal Christian and Jewish denominations that sanction gay marriage.

Unsparing in its presentation of the convenient attitudes that sanction the vilest regimes, Memoirs turns self-implication into a subtle and ferocious ethic and teaches that none of us is free from casual, dangerous moral lapses.

I do think an NOC [national Olympic committee], ie the BOA, must have the right to agree that sanction if they think it is in the common interest of the sport," the twice Olympic 1500m champion added.

Michael Cole-Schwartz, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, said that over time, particularly in states that sanction gay unions in some form, supporters are able to show that "no one else's relationship is harmed but that these particular families end up more secure".

The report said that sanction-busting has allowed diamonds to continue to play "a uniquely important role" for the Angolan rebels, who are known as Unita, allowing them to purchase weapons from Bulgaria, while buying favors from governments in Africa.