0 present participle of sanction
1 to formally give permission for something:
The government was reluctant to sanction intervention in the crisis.
They investigate non-monetary sanctioning within and across ethnic groups for two public goods: education and water wells.
Citizens then serve as the sanctioning mechanism for bluffing only if they become properly informed by open media.
These reactions to sanctioning choices provide a measure of controller-selection norms.
Here individual interests lead to a failure to punish, even when group welfare would be increased by such sanctioning.
Their duties include approving the budget superintending accounts; acquiring and disposing of municipal property; sanctioning contracts; and appointing and dismissing municipal officials.
By contrast, the burdens of sanctioning personally are born by the individual and impose no costs on the collective.
In other words, the association tried but failed to establish a sanctioning mechanism that could limit poaching.
Criminal sanctioning is therefore ultimately a task in search of an appropriate agent.