Synonym: O.K., accept, allow, approve, authorize, license, permit, support. Antonym: interdict. Similar words: function, and function, functional, distinction, malfunction, action, section, fiction. Meaning: ['sæŋkʃn] 
n. 1. formal and explicit approval 2. a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards 3. official permission or approval 4. the act of final authorization. v. 1. give sanction to 2. give authority or permission to 3. give religious sanction to, such as through on oath.
n. 1. formal and explicit approval 2. a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards 3. official permission or approval 4. the act of final authorization. v. 1. give sanction to 2. give authority or permission to 3. give religious sanction to, such as through on oath. 
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31. He acted without religious or government sanction.
32. No sanction can stand against ignited minds. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
33. Though caste often performed this stabilizing economic function, its origin was political and its sanction religious.
34. Accordingly, Manville took out his code manual and began preparing an official sanction for despatch to Brussels.
35. Not even homophobes would today sanction the stoning to death of homosexuals.
36. Allowing them to make such a decision does not sanction it - far from it.
37. Only if its many controls fail will the ultimate sanction, i.e. revocation of the disposal licence, be invoked.
38. As a conceptual analysis of the idea of law, sanction theories of the traditional Austinian type are largely discredited.
39. Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
40. Formal regulation finds expression through technically prohibitive statements of law,[http://sentencedict.com/sanction.html] backed up by the threat of some sanction consequent upon breach.
41. Late last year, the panel and House leaders agreed the House would vote on the sanction by Jan. 21.
42. Male homosexual relations are still much more heavily restricted by criminal sanction.
43. This was the first sanction imposed by the Commission since the Euratom treaty had been signed in 1957.
44. Examples of the use of this ultimate sanction are few.
45. Moreover, the seriousness of the sanction must be proportionate to the damage sustained by the worker.
46. It happens at the moment anyway,[sentencedict.com] so why not sanction it and make it a skill in itself.
47. The most frequent legal sanction imposed against corporations and their executives are fines.
48. This was enacted in 1944 and uses criminal prosecution as a sanction for an employer who fails to meet the disabled quota.
49. The ultimate sanction is financial: an additional award of compensation.
50. He admits that the final sanction, the warrant sale, provides the only alternative.
51. Expulsion is an extreme sanction which will rarely leave the continuing, innocent partners entirely unscathed.
52. As consumers, but non-producers, retired people possess no strike sanction.
53. As a result the government may find itself forced into refusing to sanction new expenditure.
54. The court will not sanction the scheme if the requisite statutory procedures have not been complied with.
55. Dissatisfied with its incapacity to make councils cut spending, the government adopted a final sanction - rate capping.
56. Initially Mr Bond gave his approval, but it is understood that sanction has subsequently been withdrawn.
57. The court will only sanction the scheme if it is reasonable.
58. He pushed aside the civilian Junta using it only to give decent sanction to new promotions.
59. Lawmakers and independent experts have expressed differing views on whether Gingrich can tap his well-stocked campaign fund to pay the recommended sanction.
60. This confidence was given a democratic sanction in the referendum of 28 September 1958.
More similar words: function, and function, functional, distinction, malfunction, action, section, fiction, auction, reduction, election, fraction, reaction, selection, infection, objection, connection, production, protection, collection, attraction, prediction, inspection, conviction, reflection, projection, take action, instruction, interaction, destruction.