Meanings of legal sanction in English

And here is the legal sanction for the statutes of the institution.

These assemblies were held without any legal sanction, and thirty-one deputies were elected.

The lower religious sanction is plainly the same in kind with the legal sanction.

Nilus undertook to procure legal sanction and the necessary sixteen witnesses to this transaction.

The legal sanction is too familiar to need illustration.

Unanimous action by the Council represents the highest form of legal sanction available in the international arena.

It is a modern scourge and a hazard on the roads and it deserves a legal sanction.

It is one of the characteristics of this sanction that it is much more far-reaching than the legal sanction.

Willis said it would be wrong if there could be no legal sanction had the FOI act been breached.

He does not dwell upon the sanctions of morality, so as to distinguish the legal sanction from the popular sanction.

In some of our countries, social work is still to receive social and legal sanction as a profession and a discipline.

Scholars such as Sheikh Hussein command great influence but their opinions, lacking definitive legal sanction, are often challenged, creating an uncertain regulatory environment.

Over the next 20 years there was neither effective legal sanction nor adequate naval strength to disperse what became a veritable private flotilla.

Where would she be, should Mr. Benjamin tell her that under some legal sanction he had given the jewels up to Mr. Camperdown?

Cigna also filed a lawsuit in Delaware, seeking legal sanction for its decision to end the deal and $13 billion in damages.

He was the first Christian emperor of Rome and simply gave legal sanction to a day already set apart for worship, which was Sunday.