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.
In this new ethic, monogamy walks hand-in-hand with monotheism, and intercourse is sanctioned only for procreation.
Moreover, he cautioned her that her current conduct would stimulate culturally sanctioned animosity in her children.
This is because an efficient ideological mechanism requires two contradictory levels: (i) the official message, and (ii) the sanctioned fantasy of its subversion.
Despite the general practice to the contrary, the marriage commission views polyandry as sanctioned by marumakkatayam law, and hence as constituting custom.
These officially sanctioned precedents served the guilds' own exclusionary goals by precluding possible popular resentment.
Once a laboratory had been officially sanctioned, it could produce and market the certified serum according to its own standards.
Parental 'irresponsibility' sanctioned by, for example, loss of driving licence.
Rather, it is to locate him discursively within a stylistic web in which collectively sanctioned aesthetic and social imperatives are individually acknowledged and negotiated.
