0 past simple and past participle of sanction
1 to formally give permission for something:
The government was reluctant to sanction intervention in the crisis.
The question as to how these sounds can be defined and sanctioned, when representing only a small entity in a greater aural environment, requires exploration.
Agents' respect of their rights and duties must be monitored, transgressions sanctioned, and conflicts resolved.
If such basic moral rights were also reaffirmed by law, cetaeceans would then receive sanctioned protection from hunting, captivity, wounding, habitat threats, or invasive experimentation.
This distrust for politics is also reflected in constitutionally sanctioned non-political specialized agencies, councils, and boards that are found in the two countries.
Consider that whatever activity an addressee is involved in, if a question selects that person, he or she can be sanctioned for not responding.
This provided townsmen with a political constitution, or corporation, that was sanctioned by the sovereign through law.
This observation seems to give a licence to depart in some way from the ratios, a departure sanctioned by the ancients themselves.
Rather, it is to locate him discursively within a stylistic web in which collectively sanctioned aesthetic and social imperatives are individually acknowledged and negotiated.
