sanction

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01. The United Nations is recommending [sanctions] be continued against the country until human rights abuses are halted.
02. The President has [sanctioned] the use of military force to free the hostages.
03. President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher both refused to impose [sanctions] against South Africa despite repeated calls to do so.
04. The American government is not prepared to lift its [sanctions] against Iraq at this time.
05. The country has been [sanctioned] by the international community for refusing to follow the ban on whaling.
06. Without the pressure of economic [sanctions], things will never change in that country.
07. In general, countries seem prepared to impose [sanctions] against other countries only when it is in their own interest to do so.
08. W. M. L. Jay once said that a good motive cannot [sanction] a bad action.
09. The [sanctions] imposed against South Africa were instrumental in bringing an end to the apartheid system in that country.
10. The new religion of Christianity was legally [sanctioned] by Constantine the Great in 313 A.D.
11. Military action against the regime has now been [sanctioned] by the U.N. Security Council.
12. In 1985, the United States Senate voted to impose economic [sanctions] on South Africa in protest against the government's apartheid policy.
13. The U.N. Security Council [sanctions] exert tight control over the country's imports and exports.
14. Studies have suggested that [sanctions] against the country are responsible for the deaths of almost 750,000 children.
15. In April of 2003, the government of Haiti officially [sanctioned] voodoo as a religion in the island nation.

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  • sanction — sanc·tion 1 / saŋk shən/ n 1: a punitive or coercive measure or action that results from failure to comply with a law, rule, or order a sanction for contempt 2: explicit or official approval 3: an economic or military coercive measure adopted usu …   Law dictionary

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