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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61. When used to sanction official disapproval of the Third Reich, this approach is unlikely to be controversial.
62. Sometimes, it is permitted to override the borrowing limits with the sanction of an ordinary resolution.
63. If this is not done, the court may exercise its discretion not to sanction the scheme.
64. Even in San Francisco, perhaps the most AIDS-acclimatised city in the world, needle-exchange programmes lack official sanction.
65. There can be no art movement of the last 200 years that he has failed to sanction.
66. He repudiated his first wife and married a recognised Judaic princess, thereby seeking at least a form of legal sanction.
67. You've cleared official sanction for Operation Cuckoo to go ahead.
68. But this is not the imposition of a direct legal sanction.
69. The third bill treats unsolicited e-mail like unsolicited faxes and subjects the sender to potential criminal sanction.
70. Once crowned, his position had divine sanction, was regarded by the church as sacrosanct, and so was considerably strengthened.
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71. Rights without the backbone of legal sanction, Bentham contends, is just talk.
72. Any pertinent changes must be notified in good time if the court is to sanction the scheme.
73. These are not empty words and phrases, but principles given powerful institutional sanction.
74. Under a schedule worked out earlier this week, the House would vote on the sanction no later than Jan. 21.
75. The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame.
76. This in effect recognized and gave official sanction to the thriving black market.
77. They propose to take away the courts' most important sanction - the power to take over a union's assets.
78. Perhaps by making cannabis legal our society would imply progressive sanction to the use of any mood-altering drug.
79. The threat of criminal sanction hangs over those who refute the constable's perception of events.
80. This judicial readiness to sanction rescue was revised in post-war years in the light of Bowlby's work on maternal deprivation.
81. War as the ultimate sanction was not a credible solution.
82. The strongest sanction that could be imposed against the three is expulsion from the university.
83. In addition to providing presuppositions for science, religious doctrines have also offered sanction or justification.
84. Nevertheless, legislation still required his sanction, and he continued to preside over cabinet meetings.
85. An outrageous violation of due process required even more severe sanction.
86. They were satisfied with this pragmatic sanction.
87. Society does not sanction child labor.
88. There is no sanction for autocracy.
89. Can Lebanon Weather Possible Economic Sanction?
90. They refused to sanction segregation.
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.