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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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санкция
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Examples for "okay"
Examples for "okay"
1
But you bring me home the second I ask you to, okay?
Michael's discovery
2
She sent another: Please text me, Gretch, let me know you're okay?
Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World
3
So far, we'd been doing okay, attempting to remain civil business partners.
Murder most frothy
4
So stop asking questions that I won't answer, okay? he told her.
Hearts of grey
5
I want to tell you what I did today, okay? she asked.
Hearts of grey
1
The National Assembly is expected to approve the budget within 30 days.
Reuters
2
He said the Queensland State Government would never approve such a project.
News.com.au
3
The federal government has yet to approve a further water management plan.
The Guardian
4
Under state law, at least 75 percent of union members must approve.
Reuters
5
Poland, helped by Spain, blocked attempts to approve a constitution last year.
The Irish Times
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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Sanction through the time
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Ireland
Common
South Africa
Common
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Common
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