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  • I cannot sanction that behavior.
  • Midwifery was not illegal in the state of Idaho, but it had not yet been sanctioned.   (source)
    sanctioned = formally approved
  • They were now state-sanctioned terrorists.   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • Of course, I've never been on a train, as travel between the districts is forbidden except for officially sanctioned duties.   (source)
  • Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor.   (source)
    sanctioned = formally approved
  • It's like a school-sanctioned booty call.   (source)
  • I tried to breathe in the Dr. Singh—sanctioned way without making it too obvious,   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • 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
  • The institution of a legal, government-sanctioned racial caste system was overturned in 1994 with the first democratic elections, but its effects still haunted the country.   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • Their ascension to grace was jumpstarted in 1982 when Pope John Paul II unexpectedly elevated them to a "personal prelature of the Pope," officially sanctioning all of their practices.   (source)
    sanctioning = approving
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  • We have shot, hanged, gassed, electrocuted, and lethally injected hundreds of people to carry out legally sanctioned executions.   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • And if he ever found out that Perrington or his father had sanctioned it, or somehow played a hand in Kaltain drugging her ….   (source)
  • Who has sanctioned it.   (source)
  • Such an opportunity, sanctioned by authority, had never been known before.   (source)
  • Every sanctioned and approved community must also be contained within a border—that's the law—and all travel between communities requires official written consent of the municipal government, to be obtained six months in advance.   (source)
  • Ajihad won't sanction it.   (source)
    sanction = approve
  • But you do know your mission here was not sanctioned.   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • ...an insurgent fighting for some kind of a different god from our own, a god who somehow sanctioned murder of innocent civilians, a god who'd effectively booted the Ten Commandments over the touchline and out of play.   (source)
  • 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
  • He campaigned against international sanctions.   (source)
    sanctions = penalties
  • Repairs, except what you could do for yourself, had to be sanctioned by remote committees which were liable to hold up even the mending of a window-pane for two years.   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • And, from having been quite grown up, a moment before, talking with the others, she became a child again, and what they had been doing was a game, and would her mother sanction their game, or condemn it, she wondered.   (source)
    sanction = approve
  • I shall see that poor lad tomorrow evening, and, with his sanction, I shall use some.   (source)
    sanction = approval
  • Mr. Thesiger sanctioned the request, Mr. Bulstrode sat down, and Mr. Hawley continued.   (source)
    sanctioned = approved
  • From then on, Ruth's malady was elevated to an annual sanctioned event.†   (source)
  • But a pair of demigods disappearing in the middle of a camp-sanctioned activity—that meant no one was safe.†   (source)
  • Wilem pointed out a few more notable buildings, including several good taverns, the alchemy complex, the Cealdish laundry, and both the sanctioned and unsanctioned brothels.†   (source)
  • What an embarrassment in her own backyard, as if she, Dede, had sanctioned all this.†   (source)
  • In a detail revealing of the government's scorched-earth approach, Muslim soldiers destroyed any mosque they came across that had not been registered and sanctioned by Khartoum.†   (source)
  • Twenty states rewarded individual schools for good test scores or dramatic improvement; thirty-two states sanctioned the schools that didn't do well.†   (source)
  • Everything Mark had witnessed in the last week had been sanctioned by the acting government of the flare-inflicted world.†   (source)
  • The report ranks countries according to how they tackle trafficking, and those in the lowest tier are sanctioned.†   (source)
  • A closed Japanese naval base, it is inaccessible to civilians of all nationalities except for rare government-sanctioned visits.†   (source)
  • Matron mumbled something about Gebrew having disposed of them humanely and that the car exhaust was ill-advised and not sanctioned, and Gebrew should have done it well before we came back from school.†   (source)
  • And Pogie—a probate—had jumped at the chance to earn his bones by carrying out a murder sanctioned by the Aryan Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor, Mr. Brigance's objection is so frivolous it deserves to be sanctioned.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was on and today's edition of TASS, the Soviet Union's sanctioned newspaper, announced, "Successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic rocket and explosions of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons have been carried out in conformity with the plan of scientific research work in the USSR."†   (source)
  • Eventually the government, the HEW, the FDA, and others agreed with Jensen and sanctioned further clinical testing over the protests of Stone and others.†   (source)
  • The military government headed by the aristocratic Raoul Cedras sanctioned the killings and left the bodies in the street for the same reason politicians in my native South tacked cardboard political signs on fence posts, only I guess the dead are cheaper.†   (source)
  • His methods, if sanctioned by any legitimate government, especially the two superpowers, would lead to confrontations neither of us can ever permit.†   (source)
  • I can't believe this would be sanctioned by Säpo.†   (source)
  • Sanctioned murder, ordered and viciously effective.†   (source)
  • We could be sanctioned, or worse.†   (source)
  • Deo had heard of this newspaper, the international edition of a Rwandan paper, sanctioned by the Rwandan government and called Kangura -- the name meant "wake up."†   (source)
  • Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, working for less than their barest survival, leaving nothing but scraps for their rulers to loot, refusing to think, to venture, to produce, when the ultimate collector of their profits and the final authority on truth or error was the whim of some gilded degenerate sanctioned as superior to reason by divine right and by grace of a club.†   (source)
  • In this repose, as cadets began their seven hours and fifteen minutes of officially sanctioned sleep, the insects cautiously came alive to begin their night rule of the barracks.†   (source)
  • We need a court-sanctioned vindication for our position in this matter.†   (source)
  • Any new inventions, emigration, or interkingdom trade must be submitted, reviewed, and sanctioned by Lord Astaroth's embassy.†   (source)
  • There was no sanctioned establishment as yet, and we young officers were more than grateful for the outpost.†   (source)
  • "Getting close to nature," which was sanctioned, after all, by the pleasant sentimentality of the sort of books she read, was a reassuring abstraction.†   (source)
  • He raises the truck's aerial, puts on the headset, and scans the spectra, trying to find anything that is not sanctioned.   (source)
  • He even sanctioned an annual pop concert on the eve of Independence Day, which was broadcast to the nation.   (source)
    sanctioned = formally approved
  • Two days ago, the Secretariat Council voted unanimously to revoke the Vatican's sanction of Opus Dei.   (source)
    sanction = formal approval
  • By the 1300s, the Vatican sanction had helped the Knights amass so much power that Pope Clement V decided that something had to be done.   (source)
    sanction = formal approvals
  • No imaginable committee would ever sanction such a marriage even if Katharine, Winston's wife, could somehow have been got rid of.   (source)
    sanction = approve
  • "I lose thousands every summer," at which he pressed his chin back against his collar, as if afraid to sanction such exaggeration, but could stand it in her whom he liked, and smiled very charmingly.   (source)
  • He infect you in such wise, that even if he do no more, you have only to live, to live in your own old, sweet way, and so in time, death, which is of man's common lot and with God's sanction, shall make you like to him.   (source)
    sanction = approval
  • Mr. Crawford's business had been to declare himself the lover of Fanny, make decided proposals for her, and entreat the sanction of the uncle, who seemed to stand in the place of her parents; and he had done it all so well, so openly, so liberally, so properly, that Sir Thomas, feeling, moreover, his own replies, and his own remarks to have been very much to the purpose, was exceedingly happy to give the particulars of their conversation; and little aware of what was passing in his…   (source)
  • Also, the high standard held up to the public mind by the College of which which gave its peculiar sanction to the expensive and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent time of it;   (source)
  • Maria had destroyed her own character, and he would not, by a vain attempt to restore what never could be restored, by affording his sanction to vice, or in seeking to lessen its disgrace, be anywise accessory to introducing such misery in another man's family as he had known himself.   (source)
  • He's talking about a business plan, for God's sake, concept-sanctioned forms of happiness.†   (source)
  • It's impossible… Oromis and I would have known if Vrael had sanctioned such a plan.†   (source)
  • For all I know, the activity may be legitimate and sanctioned by the government.†   (source)
  • It would look like a government-sanctioned assassination.†   (source)
  • I went back to law school with an intense desire to understand the laws and doctrines that sanctioned the death penalty and extreme punishments.†   (source)
  • Viewed as more sterile and serene, lethal injection had become the most common method for the sanctioned killing of people in virtually every death state.†   (source)
  • We've become so fearful and vengeful that we've thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken.†   (source)
  • An officially sanctioned kidnapping!†   (source)
  • It's part of Art and Archaeology at the University of Toronto, which is the only sanctioned pathway that leads anywhere close to art.†   (source)
  • In those initial years there had been houses of comfort set up by former prostitutes shipped in from Japan by Army-sanctioned merchants, and the infection rate was naturally high.†   (source)
  • The documentation regarding the disposition of the slaves is clear, Your Honor, and sanctioned by Spanish authorities.†   (source)
  • Tass and Radio Moscow assumed the story was officially sanctioned because it was faxed by the Ministry of Information using the proper immediate-release codes.†   (source)
  • It alerted the seniors of R Company that two of their classmates were victims of a conspiracy, a conspiracy sanctioned by the only tactical officer any of us had ever had at Carolina Military Institute.†   (source)
  • To be jumped into the gang, you had to kill someone sanctioned by the Brotherhood—a black man, a Jew, a homosexual, or anyone else whose existence was considered an affront to your own.†   (source)
  • The residue of that long, sanctioned nightmare was still with me, and I wanted to tell these freshmen truthfully that no matter how much time had elapsed since that first day at the Institute, the one truth the system had taught me was this: A part of me would always be a plebe.†   (source)
  • "Activity of this kind is most definitely not sanctioned by the government," the minister of justice said.†   (source)
  • I don't believe that this activity is sanctioned by the leadership of SIS, or that it has government approval."†   (source)
  • Because this had been going on for many years—at least since 1976, when Zalachenko arrived in Sweden—it had to be organized and sanctioned from the top.†   (source)
  • In a broader sense, the signature of the prime minister meant that he had sanctioned the need for a unit that would be responsible for "internal personnel control."†   (source)
  • But he had eventually come to the conclusion that the unlawful treatment of Salander would not have been sanctioned by the government or the bosses of the Security Police.†   (source)
  • …house to accept and retain human life; as though houses actually possess a sentience, a personality and character acquired not from the people who breathe or have breathed in them so much as rather inherent in the wood and brick or begotten upon the wood and brick by the man or men who conceived and built them—in this one an incontrovertible affirmation for emptiness, desertion; an insurmountable resistance to occupancy save when sanctioned and protected by the ruthless and the strong.†   (source)
  • When it is sanctioned publicly in the person of an elected officer who knows that he has not himself suffered at the hands of his victim, call that victim by what name you will, how can we expect an individual to refrain when he believes that he has suffered at the hands of his victim?†   (source)
  • …him back into the gullet of public opinion which had tried at last to refuse him, not only to secure her niece's future as his wife but to justify the action of her brother in getting him out of jail and her own position as having apparently sanctioned and permitted the wedding which in reality she could not have prevented—this, as Miss Rosa told you, for the sake of that big house and the position and state which the women realised long before the men did that he not only aimed at but…†   (source)
  • Love, then, was the sacred and holy flame of life that sanctioned the begetting of children.†   (source)
  • "That's the caper," sanctioned Harry Haydock.†   (source)
  • I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man.†   (source)
  • Beauchamp, solemn transactions should be sanctioned by a witness.†   (source)
  • Divorce is sanctioned even by our church.†   (source)
  • This is evidently an administrative measure sanctioned by the formalities of a judicial decision.†   (source)
  • To be sure you were, and by your consent you silently sanctioned my doing it.†   (source)
  • Or, where that was not possible, the perpetrator of the infamy having decamped, it was his general and self-consciously sanctioned practice to have nothing at all to do with the matter.†   (source)
  • By custom sanctioned for centuries, and judicially maintained by a Lord Chancellor as late as Mansfield, that mode of manning the fleet, a mode now fallen into a sort of abeyance but never formally renounced, it was not practicable to give up in those years.†   (source)
  • Wolf that he was, and unprecedented as it was, the gods had sanctioned his presence, and they, the dogs of the gods, could only recognise this sanction.†   (source)
  • Such sanctioned irregularities, which for obvious reasons the Government would hardly think to parade at the time, and which consequently, and as affecting the least influential class of mankind, have all but dropped into oblivion, lend color to something for the truth whereof I do not vouch, and hence have some scruple in stating; something I remember having seen in print, though the book I can not recall; but the same thing was personally communicated to me now more than forty years…†   (source)
  • Even if she sanctioned it, I wouldn't.†   (source)
  • He asked her if she wished to break off their engagement; but she denied this: their engagement was known to the church, and had been recognized in the prayer-meetings; it could not be broken off without strict investigation, and Sarah could render no reason that would be sanctioned by the feeling of the community.†   (source)
  • As sudden shiftings of the scene, and rapid changes of time and place, are not only sanctioned in books by long usage, but are by many considered as the great art of authorship: an author's skill in his craft being, by such critics, chiefly estimated with relation to the dilemmas in which he leaves his characters at the end of every chapter: this brief introduction to the present one may perhaps be deemed unnecessary.†   (source)
  • He must have been an extreme milksop not to say angrily, "Look there, now!" especially when his resentment was sanctioned, as it was, by general disapprobation of Maggie's behavior.†   (source)
  • He judges himself before he is judged by the law, and, abstaining from prohibited associations, he embarks in those which are legally sanctioned.†   (source)
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  • They are calling for a global campaign of boycotts and sanctions against Israel.
  • 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)
  • ...the power to alter such punishments, sanctions and removals of privileges as may have been ordered by other staff members.   (source)
  • The group was planning a march on Washington, calling for sanctions.   (source)
  • You know the sanctions, Ender. They were not as harsh then, but still not easy.   (source)
  • Saddam was smuggling oil and other items both into and out of his country, in violation of the U.N. sanctions.   (source)
  • "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)
  • The sanctions against your daughter stand.   (source)
  • ... 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)
  • 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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  • ... the High Inquisitor will henceforth have supreme authority over all punishments, sanctions and removal of privileges pertaining to the students of Hogwarts,   (source)
  • In spite of his parents' sanction he feels that he is overstepping them, correcting a mistake they've made.   (source)
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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)
  • Our job was to get aboard her, inspect her papers, and if, as suspected, she was violating the U.N. sanctions, turn her over to the Marines or other authorities for processing.†   (source)
  • Not sanctions nor the denial of Afghanistan's U.N. seat.†   (source)
  • Much tougher sanctions should be imposed on behalf of the thousands of meatpacking workers who are needlessly injured each year.†   (source)
  • Surprisingly, Baby Kochamma accepted this explanation, and the enigmatic, secretly thrilling notion of Men's Needs gained implicit sanction in the Ayemenem House.†   (source)
  • "My dear Baron," the Count said, leaning close to his ear, "you know, don't you, that the Emperor has not given official sanction to your choice of heir?"†   (source)
  • If sanctions are imposed, the goat will fall.†   (source)
  • If you award damages for work that's illegal, you're sanctioning a company to be above the law.†   (source)
  • The American Congress had passed a sweeping sanctions bill.†   (source)
  • It is an abomination I will not sanction.†   (source)
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  • The paradox of honor killings is that societies with the most rigid moral codes end up sanctioning behavior that is supremely immoral: murder.†   (source)
  • The UN condemned the invasion, demanded a withdrawal, placed economic sanctions on Iraq, and formed a blockade.†   (source)
  • In fact, I am in the process of preparing a demand for sanctions.†   (source)
  • Determined to improve European understanding of the American cause, he became, with Vergennes's sanction, his own office of information and propaganda, supplying anonymous articles to the Mercure de France, a weekly journal edited by Edme-Jacques Genet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.†   (source)
  • She just had to have some kind of story she could grab on to so she didn't have to sanction us.†   (source)
  • This particular pair has confirmatory sanction.†   (source)
  • They need some sort of sanction from us.†   (source)
  • I never considered it my right to expect approval or sanction no matter what good I had done.†   (source)
  • And they have no constitutional sanction.†   (source)
  • Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's silent--and often even vocal--sanction of things as they are.†   (source)
  • The operation was code-named Wrath of God, a phrase chosen by Shamron to give his undertaking the patina of divine sanction.†   (source)
  • The decoration scheme for the walls was, in fact, the brain child—with Mrs. Glass's unreserved spiritual sanction and everlastingly withheld formal consent—of Mr. Les Glass, the children's father, a former international vaudevillian and, no doubt, an inveterate and wistful admirer of the wall decor at Sardi's theatrical restaurant.†   (source)
  • The Church will never sanction it, says Francesca.†   (source)
  • "I suppose I'm here without official sanction, and engaged in a bit of illicit research," I said "but if Eric doesn't like it when you tell him that you saw me, please explain that I was simply exercising my rights, and he will be seeing me personally-soon."†   (source)
  • One of his speeches was described—by an opposition newspaper, but undoubtedly with some accuracy—as "a compound of abuses and egotism …. without the sanction of historical truth and …. without decent and refined language…… It was characterized throughout from beginning to end by such epithets as fellow thieves, rascals and assassins."†   (source)
  • (During the next speech CROMWELL straightens up and folds arms resignedly) CRANMER (Clears his throat fussily) Sir Thomas, it states in the preamble that the King's former marriage, to the Lady Catherine, was unlawful, she being previously his brother's wife and the-er-"Pope" having no authority to sanction it.†   (source)
  • One morning, soon after sanctions went into effect, we woke up to the sound of sirens on the road.†   (source)
  • I found a sanction from our work, for I thought I had finally found my truest place in the culture.†   (source)
  • The European Community had already begun to scale back sanctions.†   (source)
  • Out of sight and out of sanction, he could be bought.†   (source)
  • There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act.†   (source)
  • The existing Confederation has no SANCTION—no way to enforce—its laws.†   (source)
  • It marked the first time the two groups fraternized together under official sanction.†   (source)
  • Before going, I met privately with Mr. de Klerk, who wanted to discuss the issue of sanctions.†   (source)
  • The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.†   (source)
  • This conversation is off the record, with no official sanction.†   (source)
  • And they will sometimes demand legislative sanction and cooperation.†   (source)
  • A law needs a sanction a punishment or penalty for disobedience.†   (source)
  • The conference decided to retain the sanctions policy as it was.†   (source)
  • I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me.†   (source)
  • How had the victims come to sanction a code that pronounced them guilty of the fact of existing?†   (source)
  • Sanctions against South Africa remained in force and even increased.†   (source)
  • THE SANCTION OF THE VICTIM The roast turkey had cost $30.†   (source)
  • Hadn't he given his sanction to the code of self damnation?†   (source)
  • I don't know the nature of that sanction-but.†   (source)
  • I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality-and that my sanction was its only power.†   (source)
  • He knew that the words he heard in his mind were the key to the answer: The sanction of the victim.†   (source)
  • His was the only name of honor and achievement, used to sanction the rule of the looters.†   (source)
  • Two years later, even harsher sanctions were put in place in another attempt to force the Taliban to hand over bin Laden.†   (source)
  • The U.N. later estimated that, in violation of international sanctions, billions of dollars of oil and other items were smuggled out of Iraq and into the pockets of Saddam's regime.†   (source)
  • Then in 1999 the United States persuaded the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The news had spread there already: sanctions had been imposed, the gringos were closing down their embassy.†   (source)
  • The OAS has imposed sanctions!†   (source)
  • They're all saying, 'Ay, Jefe, you've done so much good for our province' 'Ay, Jefe, you've raised strong morale after sanctions' 'Ay, Jefe:" Tio Pepe crooned to imitate the cronies.†   (source)
  • Though the inspector had no such convenient pulpit for reply, certain trenchant remarks of his on persecution, contempt of authority, bigotry, religious mania, the law of slander, and the probable effects of direct action in opposition to Government sanction achieved a wide circulation.†   (source)
  • I felt explicitly that secret living I'd known throughout my life, but now for the first time it took the form of a bizarre sanction being with Pete and even Wen.†   (source)
  • Besides, from what I knew before and what I have subsequently learned about Foreign Service Officer Staples, I would say she's acting alone, certainly not with official sanction.†   (source)
  • Whether either side increases its area of power at the expense of the other will depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents, not which is more ambitious or where it is located.†   (source)
  • He was still out of sanction!†   (source)
  • I also delivered a strong message on sanctions, for I knewthat the Bush administration felt it was time to loosen them.†   (source)
  • The Eminent Persons Group had come with many questions involving the issues of violence, negotiations, and international sanctions.†   (source)
  • He opened the meeting with a controversial speech in which he called for our sanctions policy to be reevaluated.†   (source)
  • I was pleased, but well aware that they had taken this action while I was in Europe in order to undermine my call for sanctions.†   (source)
  • Even though Mrs. Thatcher was on the opposite side of the ANC on many issues, such as sanctions, she was always a forthright and solicitous lady.†   (source)
  • In our meeting that day, though, I could not make the slightest bit of headway with her on the question of sanctions.†   (source)
  • In person, he was just as warm and thoughtful, though we differed markedly on the issues of the armed struggle and sanctions.†   (source)
  • He had no right to condemn anyone-he thought-to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanction of virtue.†   (source)
  • While we were mindful of what Mr. de Klerk had done, in our view sanctions remained the best lever to force him to do more.†   (source)
  • When robbery is done in open daylight by sanction of the law, as it is done today, then any act of honor or restitution has to be hidden underground.†   (source)
  • Based on the changes he had made in South Africa, he asked me to mute the call for the continuation of international sanctions.†   (source)
  • Don't give them that kind of sanction.†   (source)
  • I was aware thatthe European Community and the States were inclined to relax sanctions based on Mr. de Klerk's reforms.†   (source)
  • I gave them that priceless possession which they had missed, had longed for, yet had not known they needed: a moral sanction.†   (source)
  • The ANC, he maintained, faced "international marginalization" unless it took the initiative to deescalate sanctions.†   (source)
  • I don't know the nature of that sanction —but, Dagny, I know that if we value our lives, we must not give it to them.†   (source)
  • The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria.†   (source)
  • Rearden saw her watching them-and the faintest contraction of his eyes was like a smile of sanction, as if his glance were repeating to her the message he had sent her from the valley.†   (source)
  • I explained to Mr. de Klerk that we could not tell our supporters to relax sanctions until he had completely dismantled apartheid and a transitional government was in place.†   (source)
  • Rearden sat very still; the words in his mind were like the beat of steps down the trail he had been seeking; the words were: the sanction of the victim.†   (source)
  • A man who has no virtues is a hater of existence who acts on the premise of death; to help him is to sanction his evil and to support his career of destruction.†   (source)
  • Although Oliver's speech had been discussed and approved by the NEC, his proposal was met with indignation by ANC militants, who insisted that sanctions must be maintained unchanged.†   (source)
  • It's because I'm the first man who has given you what the whole world owes you and what you should have demanded of all men before you dealt with them: a moral sanction.†   (source)
  • At a meeting of the British Commonwealth in Nassau in October 1985, the leaders could not reach agreement on whether toparticipate in international sanctions against South Africa.†   (source)
  • She had listened, hearing, through his words, the sound of Rearden's voice saying to her on a spring evening over a year ago: "They need some sort of sanction from us.†   (source)
  • To resolve the deadlock, the assembled nations agreed that a delegation of "eminent persons" would visit South Africa and report back on whether sanctions were the appropriate tool to help bring about the end of apartheid.†   (source)
  • That creed has lasted for centuries solely by the sanction of the victims-by means of the victims' acceptance of punishment for breaking a code impossible to practice.†   (source)
  • I took advantage of this to thank the world's antiapartheid forces for the tremendous work they had done in pressing for sanctions, for the release of myself and fellow political prisoners, and for the genuine support and solidarity they had shown the oppressed people of my country.†   (source)
  • Asked about sanctions, I said the ANC could not yet call for the relaxation of sanctions, because the situation that caused sanctions in the first place—the absence of political rights for blacks—was still the status quo.†   (source)
  • —gave my sanction to that book?†   (source)
  • Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive.†   (source)
  • That fake is the only dam holding off their secret terror, the terror of knowing they're unfit to exist; remove it and let them drown; your sanction is their only life belt.†   (source)
  • But those of you who have known a single moment of love for existence and of pride in being its worthy lover, a moment of looking at this earth and letting your glance be its sanction, have known the state of being a man, and I —I am only the man who knew that that state is not to be betrayed.†   (source)
  • When you declare that men are irrational animals and propose to treat them as such, you define thereby your own character and can no longer claim the sanction of reason-as no advocate of contradictions can claim it.†   (source)
  • They grant the enemy's basic premise, thus granting the sanction of reason to formal dementia, A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.†   (source)
  • …man's, that humanity worshipped: the idol of instinct and the idol of force-the mystics and the kings-the mystics, who longed for an irresponsible consciousness and ruled by means of the claim that their dark emotions were superior to reason, that knowledge came in blind, causeless fits, blindly to be followed, not doubted-and the kings, who ruled by means of claws and muscles, with conquest as their method and looting as their aim, with a club or a gun as sole sanction of their power.†   (source)
  • With an awed contempt-awed by the enormity of the sight-she wondered what inner degradation those men had to reach in order to arrive at a level of self-deception where they would seek the extorted approval of an unwilling victim as the moral sanction they needed, they who thought that they were merely deceiving the world.†   (source)
  • I could say to you that I have done more good for my fellow men than you can ever hope to accomplish-but I will not say it, because I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.†   (source)
  • But she knew that there was no meaning in motors or factories or trains, that their only meaning was in man's enjoyment of his life, which they served-and that her swelling admiration at the sight of an achievement was for the man from whom it came, for the power and the radiant vision within him which had seen the earth as a place of enjoyment and had known that the work of achieving one's happiness was the purpose, the sanction and the meaning of life.†   (source)
  • When you listen to a mystic's harangue on the impotence of the human mind and begin to doubt your consciousness, not his, when you permit your precariously semi-rational state to be shaken by any assertion and decide it is safer to trust his superior certainty and knowledge, the joke is on both of you: your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.†   (source)
  • The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, in an admiration not to be expressed by any other form of tribute, one's spirit makes one's body become the tribute, recasting it-as proof, as sanction, as reward-into a single sensation of such intensity of joy that no other sanction of one's existence is necessary.†   (source)
  • In the same manner and for the same reason as a banker may not accept and pass counterfeit money, granting it the sanction, honor and prestige of his bank, just as he may not grant the counterfeiter's demand for tolerance of a mere difference of opinion-so I may not grant the title of philosopher to Dr. Simon Pritchett or compete with him for the minds of men.†   (source)
  • She felt certain that it was not the country's panic he wanted to stave off, but his own-that he, and Chick Morrison and Wesley Mouch and all the rest of the looting crew needed her sanction, not to reassure their victims, but to reassure themselves, though the allegedly crafty, the allegedly practical idea of deluding their victims was the only identification they gave to their own motive and their hysterical insistence.†   (source)
  • Withdraw your sanction.†   (source)
  • She did not answer, she felt as if a word would overfill the fullness of this moment, she merely turned to him with a look of acquiescence that was disarmed, childishly humble and would have been an apology but for its shining joy, He smiled-in amusement, in understanding, almost in comradeship of the things they shared and in sanction of the things she felt.†   (source)
  • The castrated performance of a sickening drudgery was held to be a woman's proper virtue-while that which gave it meaning and sanction was held as a shameful sin …. the work of dealing with grease, steam and slimy peelings in a reeking kitchen was held to be a spiritual matter, an act of compliance with her moral duty-while the meeting of two bodies in a bedroom was held to be a physical indulgence, an act of surrender to an animal instinct, with no glory, meaning or pride of spirit to…†   (source)
  • We will do this, if Heaven will sanction Acceleration and religious freedom, and end the reign of the Lords of Karma.†   (source)
  • The second was largely spent in the protracted torture and eventual murder of a prince of the church who prefers martyrdom to sanctioning Francesca's marriage to her son.†   (source)
  • His curious guffaw seems to sanction our laughter.†   (source)
  • I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being.†   (source)
  • To sanction it there was Culture; there were twenty centuries unrolling in moldering ruins; there was the great Exposition; there was every European post card in every family album.†   (source)
  • In such cases as ours the very recklessness gives security as the strength of the desire seems to give the sanction of justice and righteousness.†   (source)
  • The people up at Government House wouldn't hear of it; it's as much as they'll do to sanction an Everest expedition, and when I said I thought of wandering about the Kuen-Luns on my own, they looked at me rather as if I'd suggested writing a life of Gandhi.†   (source)
  • …signed his bond—something he would not have done to save his own good name even though the arrest had been a direct result of the business between himself and Sutpen—that affair which, when it reached a point where his conscience refused to sanction it, he had withdrawn from and let Sutpen take all the profit, refusing even to allow Sutpen to reimburse him for the loss which, in withdrawing, he had suffered, though he did permit his daughter to marry this man of whose actions his…†   (source)
  • There was another Lincoln who had a lawyer-like feeling for the niceties of established rules and a nationalist's reverence for constitutional sanction.†   (source)
  • They were using his having killed Bessie to kill him for his having killed Mary, to cast him in a light that would sanction any action taken to destroy him.†   (source)
  • I am the warrant and the sanction.†   (source)
  • I stared at Young, feeling that he was making a dreadful mistake, but fearing him because he had, by his own account, the sanction of high political authority.†   (source)
  • We know that happiness comes to men when they are caught up, absorbed in a meaningful task or duty to be done, a task or duty which in turn sheds justification and sanction back down upon their humble labors.†   (source)
  • It confined his life to the happier age that Lincoln understood—which unwittingly he helped to destroy—the age that gave sanction to the _honest compromises of his thought.†   (source)
  • But when Roark looked at him with approval, when Roark smiled, when Roark praised one of his articles, Heller felt the strangely clean joy of a sanction that was neither a bribe nor alms.†   (source)
  • If it were true, that old legend about appearing before a supreme judge and naming one's record, I would offer, with all my pride, not any act I committed, but one thing I have never done on this earth: that I never sought an outside sanction.†   (source)
  • The essence of his position was that the principle of exclusion has no inner check; that arbitrarily barring one minority from the exercise of its rights can be both a precedent and a moral sanction for barring another, and that it creates a frame of mind from which no one can expect justice or security.†   (source)
  • The walls rising in the darkness beyond the open door gave sanction to their rest, gave them the right to lightness, the building on which they had all worked together, the building that was like a low, audible harmony to the sound of their voices.†   (source)
  • What she required, for the moment, of the Dorsets' friendship, was simply its social sanction.†   (source)
  • She laughed quaintly, saying: "Does it need Sir Thomas More's sanction?"†   (source)
  • And they don't sanction the gentry's moving outside bounds clearly laid down in their ideas."†   (source)
  • "Your Society sanctions women's preaching, then?"†   (source)
  • He said just now (he nodded at Razumihin) that I sanction bloodshed.†   (source)
  • But you must generously allow it, if your sanction is so necessary," Katya added viciously.†   (source)
  • [She embraces her daughter protectingly, instinctively looking upward for divine sanction.†   (source)
  • Without his sanction I could not hope to be listened to again.†   (source)
  • No drop of the blood of this most excellent creature shall be spilled by my sanction.†   (source)
  • As we advance towards the South, the prejudice which sanctions idleness increases in power.†   (source)
  • Tell me for the hundredth time that you refuse my love, which had your mother's sanction.†   (source)
  • In her name, then, let it be done; I sanction it.†   (source)
  • I have said my master found religious sanction for his cruelty.†   (source)
  • That's all very charming; but if you want to swindle why do you want a moral sanction for doing it?†   (source)
  • I said this almost involuntarily, and, with as little sanction of free will, my tears gushed out.†   (source)
  • He can't bring himself to swindle without a moral sanction.†   (source)
  • I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a High School in the Capital, and if possible another in each pargana.†   (source)
  • The strong horses, used to a heavy hand, could not altogether be controlled by Milly, and they plunged into many places without her sanction.†   (source)
  • Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.†   (source)
  • Wolf that he was, and unprecedented as it was, the gods had sanctioned his presence, and they, the dogs of the gods, could only recognise this sanction.†   (source)
  • What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider.†   (source)
  • And this man they have made into the high priest of property and smug respectability, a divine sanction of all the horrors and abominations of modern commercial civilization!†   (source)
  • But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life.†   (source)
  • Mr. Beebe and his mother had already gone, but she had refused to start until she obtained her hostess's full sanction, for it would mean keeping the horse waiting a good ten minutes more.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • She understood consecration—she who answered Kennicott's hints about having Hugh christened: "I refuse to insult my baby and myself by asking an ignorant young man in a frock coat to sanction him, to permit me to have him!†   (source)
  • …of a very complex phenomenon, almost impure in its intricacy, a blend of conscious, half-conscious, and subconscious elements—assisted and driven by the wishes of each person present, whether they admitted it to themselves or not—and of a secret sanction granted by unillumined layers within the souls of them all, a subterranean cooperation for strange ends, with each individual contributing more or less of his or her own darkness, the strongest contribution probably being that of sweet…†   (source)
  • If it could not be done with Mr. Mills's sanction and concurrence, I besought a clandestine interview in the back kitchen where the Mangle was.†   (source)
  • To science made government, to the force of things become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn of truth corresponding to a dawn of day.†   (source)
  • "Granted," said the young man; "but, in my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole system could not keep foothold for an hour.†   (source)
  • Oh! then you own it was only meant for a neighborly visit on your part, and without the sanction of law.†   (source)
  • "Heyward," she said, looking him full in the face with a touching expression of innocence and dependency, "give me the sacred presence and the holy sanction of that parent before you urge me further."†   (source)
  • Weucha, who, eager for this sanction, had long stood watching the countenance of the chief, bounded forward at the signal like a blood-hound loosened from the leash.†   (source)
  • He bore it with noble indifference, and she would have imagined that Bingley had received his sanction to be happy, had she not seen his eyes likewise turned towards Mr. Darcy, with an expression of half-laughing alarm.†   (source)
  • Still thinking of the sanction which the Constitution gives to slavery, he says, "Because it was part of the original compact--let it stand."†   (source)
  • But I will sanction no such character as yours; the world shall know that I feel the difference between right and wrong.†   (source)
  • They did not talk seriously to him; when reporting to him or asking for his sanction they appeared to be fulfilling a regrettable formality, but they winked behind his back and tried to mislead him at every turn.†   (source)
  • Fritz, having previously made known to me, what indeed was very evident, the attachment between himself and Jenny, I advised him to mention it to Colonel Montrose as soon as possible after being introduced to him, and ask for his sanction to their engagement.†   (source)
  • Words of entreaty and prayer these, poured forth volubly and with earnestness and the mighty sanction of beauty.†   (source)
  • He threw the birth of my children in her face, and accused her of sanctioning the life I was leading.†   (source)
  • She did not say that Tertius was unaware of her intention to write; for she had the idea that his supposed sanction of her letter would be in accordance with what she did say of his great regard for his uncle Godwin as the relative who had always been his best friend.†   (source)
  • And he is upon the whole of a fixed opinion that to give the sanction of his countenance to any complaints respecting it would be to encourage some person in the lower classes to rise up somewhere—like Wat Tyler.†   (source)
  • Let it go forth to the world, that we do not give THEM the sanction of our names, but that we confer the distinction merely upon Miss Snevellicci.†   (source)
  • Thus the government is more and more absolved from the necessity of subjecting its policy and its rights to the sanction of another power.†   (source)
  • 'We refuse to sanction these indentures,' said the old gentleman: tossing aside the piece of parchment as he spoke.†   (source)
  • You do not sanction our project?†   (source)
  • The true sanction of political laws is to be found in penal legislation, and if that sanction be wanting the law will sooner or later lose its cogency.†   (source)
  • She had become almost indifferent to her mother's habitual depreciation of her, but she was keenly alive to any sanction of it, however passive, that she might suspect in Tom.†   (source)
  • But that sanction of bloodshed by conscience is to my mind…. more terrible than the official, legal sanction of bloodshed….†   (source)
  • But when I reflected that I was a slave, and that the laws gave no sanction to the marriage of such, my heart sank within me.†   (source)
  • He consulted the old prince, and with his sanction gave Kitty his diary, in which there was written the confession that tortured him.†   (source)
  • On this ground it was (professionally speaking) fortunate for Dr. Minchin that his religious sympathies were of a general kind, and such as gave a distant medical sanction to all serious sentiment, whether of Church or Dissent, rather than any adhesion to particular tenets.†   (source)
  • In most of the countries of Europe, there were, and there still are, many private rights, connected for the most part with the general right of property, which stood under the protection of the courts of justice, and which the State could not violate without their sanction.†   (source)
  • We may believe she was struggling to give the story the sanction of faith, which is always an absolutist in demand, and that it was with her as with the men of the day, eye-witnesses of what was done by the Christ, as well as the myriads who have succeeded them.†   (source)
  • And I should never have expected you to be lending your sanction to such vanity-baits for poor young ladies.†   (source)
  • Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.†   (source)
  • "We shall then have your willing sanction, good Cedric," said Prince John, "to confer this fief upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.†   (source)
  • The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to--for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well--is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.†   (source)
  • While the executioner was burning the great books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were eagerly read by the unfortunate.†   (source)
  • No. 'They sent abroad, to artists of great celebrity in those times, and having obtained the church's sanction to their work of piety, caused to be executed, in five large compartments of richly stained glass, a faithful copy of their old embroidery work.†   (source)
  • He felt the disappointment of the young man, and was mortified to have been the means of promoting it, by the sanction he had given; and the part which he was persuaded Emma had taken in the affair, was provoking him exceedingly.†   (source)
  • But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find within himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood—that depends on the idea and its dimensions, note that.†   (source)
  • I know my Maker sanctions what I do.†   (source)
  • He would at once approach Valentine's father and acknowledge all, begging Villefort to pardon and sanction the love which united two fond and loving hearts.†   (source)
  • He said, turning first toward Mr. Thesiger, and then looking at Mr. Hawley— "I protest before you, sir, as a Christian minister, against the sanction of proceedings towards me which are dictated by virulent hatred.†   (source)
  • When a man has his wages stolen from him, year after year, and the laws sanction and enforce the theft, how can he be expected to have more regard to honesty than has the man who robs him?†   (source)
  • This new life could not but have terrors for her inexperience; but, terrible or not, the change had been wrought six weeks before in her soul, and this was merely the final sanction of what had long been completed in her heart.†   (source)
  • Like all other powers, and perhaps more than all other powers, the authority of the many requires the sanction of time; at first it enforces obedience by constraint, but its laws are not respected until they have long been maintained.†   (source)
  • Thou art no Christian, Rebecca; and to thee are unknown those high feelings which swell the bosom of a noble maiden when her lover hath done some deed of emprize which sanctions his flame.†   (source)
  • When men are about to commit, or to sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all.†   (source)
  • Brethren, the world is now in the condition that, to restore the old Mizraimic faith, the reformer must have a more than human sanction; he must not merely come in God's name, he must have the proofs subject to his word; he must demonstrate all he says, even God.†   (source)
  • This new sense of her relation to Philip nullified the anxious scruples she would otherwise have felt, lest she should overstep the limit of intercourse with him that Tom would sanction; and she put out her hand to him, and felt the tears in her eyes without any consciousness of an inward check.†   (source)
  • …Alexandrovitch was perfectly aware that he could not exert any moral influence over his wife, that such an attempt at reformation could lead to nothing but falsity; though in passing through these difficult moments he had not once thought of seeking guidance in religion, yet now, when his conclusion corresponded, as it seemed to him, with the requirements of religion, this religious sanction to his decision gave him complete satisfaction, and to some extent restored his peace of mind.†   (source)
  • Did we not love mankind, so meekly acknowledging their feebleness, lovingly lightening their burden, and permitting their weak nature even sin with our sanction?†   (source)
  • You are right, of course, in saying that it's not new, that it's like what we've read and heard a thousand times already; but what is really original in all this, and is exclusively your own, to my horror, is that you sanction bloodshed in the name of conscience, and, excuse my saying so, with such fanaticism….†   (source)
  • I had not the sanction.†   (source)
  • Sutton didn't die without making her will, though," said Mr. Pullet, with a confused sense that he was saying something to sanction his wife's tears; "ours is a rich parish, but they say there's nobody else to leave as many thousands behind 'em as Mrs. Sutton.†   (source)
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