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sanction
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sanction as in:  cannot sanction such behavior

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The General insists that he does not sanction any form of torture and that he has placed procedures in place to prevent it.
sanction = approve of
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    I cannot sanction that behavior.
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    When I explained that I spent most of my time with my grandparents and that I'd like to continue with that arrangement, they replied that the courts would not necessarily sanction such an arrangement.  (source)
    sanction = approve
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    It's like a school-sanctioned booty call.  (source)
    sanctioned = formally approved
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    Two days ago, the Secretariat Council voted unanimously to revoke the Vatican's sanction of Opus Dei.  (source)
    sanction = formal approval
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    Of course, I've never been on a train, as travel between the districts is forbidden except for officially sanctioned duties.  (source)
    sanctioned = approved
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    But the unprovoked and unsanctioned movement enraged the guard.†  (source)
    unsanctioned = unapproved
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsanctioned means not and reverses the meaning of sanctioned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If you award damages for work that's illegal, you're sanctioning a company to be above the law.†  (source)
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    He campaigned against international sanctions.  (source)
    sanctions = penalties
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    McAllister was one particularly snooty voice, but it was clear to everyone that he spoke with the sanction of New York's blue bloods.  (source)
    sanction = approval
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    They were now state-sanctioned terrorists.  (source)
    sanctioned = approved
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    The man remained where he was, in an unsanctioned part of the cage.†  (source)
    unsanctioned = unapproved
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    Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.†  (source)
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    Ajihad won't sanction it.  (source)
    sanction = approve
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sanction as in:  sanctions against them

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When they withdraw their troops from the country, international sanctions should be lifted.
sanctions = penalties
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    They are calling for a global campaign of boycotts and sanctions against Israel.
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    Every American who is a taxpayer, property owner, or employee of an institution of any size is now in continuous contact with one or more agencies of government whose rules must be obeyed under sanction of the police power.†  (source)
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    Whatever one may think of the concept of managerial liability as a basis for criminal sanction, none should dispute that there are fundamental differences in criminal culpability between corporate managers who are active participants in criminal activity and those who stand convicted because of their role as officers or managers within a company and whose liability is based solely on their authority to act and their alleged failure to exercise that authority.†  (source)
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    But to answer your question: yes, some Jews did convert when the Nazis' sanctions became unbearable for them and they were effectively excluded from society.  (source)
    sanctions = penalties
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    Your father denies his Polish ancestry, since Poland is still a noncompliant nation, and under international sanction because of it.  (source)
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    ...the power to alter such punishments, sanctions and removals of privileges as may have been ordered by other staff members.  (source)
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    In spite of his parents' sanction he feels that he is overstepping them, correcting a mistake they've made.  (source)
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    "This may result in some sanctions for you at work," one of the Officials says to my father, in a tone so mean I wonder if she will get cited herself.  (source)
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    The sanctions against your daughter stand.  (source)
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    When asked to explain his decision, the president cited the United Kingdom's role in the UN's economic sanctions against the United States.  (source)
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    ... we were praising the fact that the day before, the General Assembly of the U.N. had voted in favor of sanctions against South Africa for the first time.  (source)
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    Saddam was smuggling oil and other items both into and out of his country, in violation of the U.N. sanctions.  (source)
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    The UN condemned the invasion, demanded a withdrawal, placed economic sanctions on Iraq, and formed a blockade.†  (source)
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