Definition of Sanction

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Sanction

Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.

Anything done or said to enforce the will, law, or authority of another; as, legal sanctions.

To give sanction to; to ratify; to confirm; to approve.

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Sanction Quotations

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
Paul Harris

Sanction Translations

sanction in Afrikaans is sanksie
sanction in Dutch is sanctioneren, bekrachtigen
sanction in French is sanctionnez, sanctionner, sanctionnons, sanction

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