Similar words: sanction, sanctity, sanctimonious, unction, function, extinction, and function, distinction. Meaning: ['sæŋkʃn] 
adj. 1. conforming to orthodox or recognized rules 2. formally approved and invested with legal authority 3. established by authority; given authoritative approval.
adj. 1. conforming to orthodox or recognized rules 2. formally approved and invested with legal authority 3. established by authority; given authoritative approval. 
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1 Slavery was once socially sanctioned.
2 Our plan wasn't sanctioned by the board of directors.
3 He had tacitly sanctioned repression against the opposition parties.
4 The wrong pronunciation of the word is sanctioned by public usage.
5 Who sanctioned bombing the town?
6 Gambling will be not be sanctioned in any form.
7 Moreover, behaviour can be sanctioned in informal ways.
8 Tolerance exists only for officially sanctioned ideas.
9 Rabin told the Knesset that while he had sanctioned the use of force, he had never given illegal orders.
10 The church's view, that marriages sanctioned by religious ritual should not be broken, is reflected in divorce laws.
11 They gave away small parcels, and even sanctioned the right to buy and sell property in the 1993 constitution.
12 There are also sanctioned nude beaches and unsanctioned beaches, where you go buff at your own risk.
13 The social hierarchy was determined by birth and sanctioned by religion.
14 Cowboys received $ 8 million in payouts in sanctioned rodeos in 1995, but many still claim to have trouble covering expenses.
15 Political disobedience is sanctioned as a possible expression of active citizenship on which a self-managing democracy is based.
16 They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members, but only to represent them to outsiders.
17 And oh yes, alcohol, although legally sanctioned by adult culture, can kill you.
18 Private and sanctioned nude areas are legal in Texas, but some states are trying to pass anti-nudity legislation.
19 This expedition was sanctioned on the understanding that there was good money to be won at wrestling.
20 Nevertheless, extreme vigilance and monitoring are still needed each time a new product is sanctioned for release into the environment.
21 Side by side with such unions existed, and still exist,(www.Sentencedict.com) unions not sanctioned by law.
22 Yesterday the border farmers threatened to block the council scheme unless their own scheme was sanctioned.
23 The Congress instructed its members and friends to withdraw from the legislatures, and sanctioned civil disobedience and nonpayment of taxes.
24 At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.
25 The number of divorcees remarrying in church has risen steadily since such weddings were sanctioned in 1981.
26 Humanitarian aid would have to be halted if an attack was sanctioned, Mr Boutros-Ghali added.
27 Blacks knew that every peaceful march and favorable court decision was being answered with acts of officially sanctioned violence.
28 Beyond the category of leaks described above exists a second category: the officially sanctioned leak calculated to produce a specific effect.
29 The trader gives his orders by open outcry and officially sanctioned hand signals.
30 The right of some one to exercise power is sanctioned by the organisation's rules.
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