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Meanings of sanction in English

Portuguese
autorização
Catalan
consentiment
Spanish
aprobación

Formal and explicit approval.

        autorização
        Portuguese
        autorização

        Official permission or approval.

              autorização
              Portuguese
              aprovar
              Catalan
              aprovar
              Spanish
              aprobar

              Give sanction to.

                  aprovar
                  Russian
                  санкция
                  Portuguese
                  sanção
                  Spanish
                  sancion
                  Catalan
                  sanció

                  Penalty or other mean of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law.

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                      Usage of sanction in English
                      1
                      National security teams put their responses together, including plans to sanction Iran.
                      News.com.au
                      2
                      This sanction only bans JPMorgan from trading physical power at market-based rates.
                      Reuters
                      3
                      In so grave a matter I must have the sanction of authority.
                      The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of...
                      4
                      The Speaker of Parliament would have to sanction the secret ballot, however.
                      The South African
                      5
                      You've come here without a warrant, without any official sanction, haven't you?'
                      City of lies
                      6
                      ASRM will sanction members who do not adhere to the guidelines, however.
                      Reuters
                      7
                      And here is the legal sanction for the statutes of the institution.
                      Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts
                      8
                      It is actually this ultimate sanction that makes performance appraisal systems work.
                      The Irish Times
                      9
                      Such, then, is the sanction of the social right of expropriation: indemnity.
                      System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
                      10
                      Reuters couldn't determine whether the programme or its creators faced any sanction.
                      Reuters
                      11
                      The business consisted of the sanction of rules for the Pan-Fabian Organisation.
                      The History of the Fabian Society
                      12
                      He later urged Trump to sanction Russia for the poisoning in Britain.
                      Reuters
                      13
                      The new society received the formal sanction and approval of Clement XIV.
                      History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the Frenc...
                      14
                      The case requires, and the Law and the Constitution sanction this punishment.
                      Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
                      15
                      Greenberg was sympathetic to the Cowboys' position but stood by the sanction.
                      News.com.au
                      16
                      Since then, the 7th Fleet has been responsible for enforcing this sanction.
                      The Reality Dysfunction
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