Sentence examples for would have sanctioned from inspiring English sources

"That is not something we knew about or would have sanctioned," Mr. McKeon said.

And he also would have sanctioned a nuclear war... 'He had a good life, but he chose a hard path, and he has stuck with it.

Though neither physicist would have sanctioned the above nonsense, it's easy to imagine how such misapprehensions arise, given the things they do say about the principle, and especially the central place they both give to the concept of measurement.

Jasanoff appears to accept Conrad's multiplicity ("Any great writer generates lots of interpretations and reactions") while remaining firmly convinced that her own approach is the one he would have sanctioned.

What neither Perkins nor Gollancz would have sanctioned, then, is imposed editing that runs counter to the impulses of the writer, and the acceptance of which becomes a condition of publication.

While Greenberg may have almost single-handedly made "decorative" an accolade for postwar abstract painting, one wonders if he would have sanctioned a level of decorativeness that evokes Tiffany's favrile glass, Gustave Moreau (without the people) and Vincent Augustus Tack.

Some other oil companies say that they would not have sanctioned all, or even any, of BP's decisions about cementing, pipes and so on.

(Rather surreally, the first names on the script credits are Joel and Ethan Coen, but I can't believe they would ever have sanctioned the you're-gonna-be-somebody cliches that infest much of the early part of the film).

Brooks told the jury that she had read about hacking in newspaper stories; she had talked about it casually because she had not realised it was illegal; but she would never have sanctioned it because it was such a severe breach of privacy.

It is obvious there are aspects of Manchester United's pre-season tour of the United States that Van Gaal, vastly experienced at the highest level following stints in charge of Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and the Netherlands, would never have sanctioned had he been in place when they were arranged.

Would Jesus have sanctioned burning heretics at the stake or using his message to justify a laissez-faire indifference to the poor and vulnerable?