Word Finder - sanctions

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An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.

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The whalers had been operating in the contested waters off the island with sanction from the Japanese government.

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A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.

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The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.

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A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.

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To ratify; to make valid.

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To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.

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To penalize (a State etc.) with sanctions.

The introduction of criminal sanctions for individuals who engage in hard-core cartels.

Iraq has been under comprehensive economic sanctions since 1990, and is only allowed to export one commodity, oil.

The following is an archived copy of a message sent to a Discussion List run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq.

The Court considered the other sanctions available where the expert flagrantly disregarded his duty to the Court.

The government is in the hands of the grand-duke, who sanctions and promulgates the laws.

It is frequently impossible to discover whether he wishes by an appeal to evolutionary principles to reinforce the sanctions and emphasize the absolute character of the traditional morality which in the main he accepts without question from the current opinions about conduct of his age, or whether he wishes to discredit and disprove the validity of that morality in order to substitute by the aid of the biological sciences a new ethical code.

The argument, for instance, that intuitive and a priori beliefs gain their absolute character from the fact that they are the result of continued transmission and accumulation of past nervous modifications in the history of the race would, if taken seriously, lead us to the belief that ultimate ethical sanctions are to be sought, not by an appeal to the moral consciousness, but by the investigation of brain tissue and the relation of man's bodily organism to its environment.

Finally it has become apparent that many problems hitherto left for political economy to solve belong more properly to the moralist, if not to the moral philosopher, and it may be confidently expected that with the increased complexity of social life and the disappearance of many sanctions of morality hitherto regarded as inviolable, the future will bring a renewed and practical 1 Cf.

It is not always the case that corruption causes losses to occur, and this therefore makes the financial sanctions applied somewhat arbitrary.

Staff and students who persistently disregard this policy will be subject to the normal sanctions associated with policy abuse.

To say that you were in favor of workers ' sanctions was to support militarism.

It is because new proposals to lift the sanctions on Iraqi civilians will automatically tighten the embargo on weapons bound for Baghdad.

When sanctions were deemed expedient to fulfill U.S. foreign policy goals, they were touted by U.S. officials as indispensable.

On the other hand a policy of no war, no sanctions, liberates the evil genie, Saddam Hussein.

Economic sanctions, by their very nature, are designed to inflict economic hardship on civilian populations.

The truly humanitarian position is to do away with sanctions entirely, which will only happen if Saddam Hussein is overthrown.

It provides a statutory framework for the President to impose sanctions against foreign drug kingpins and their organizations on a worldwide scale.

The Bush administration's sanctions policy targets military materiel while allowing civilian goods to flow more freely.

No sanctions are available to the chief for enforcing obedience to his orders, other than calling in agents of the Administration.

The original legislation was revised by the Finance Act 1999, and the sanctions made more onerous.

Athletes will be subjected to urine and blood tests, both of which must prove positive before sanctions are threatened.

Misbehavior in this area will result in strong measures being taken by the proctors and may also attract sanctions by the Thames Valley Police.

Only when the threat of war and crippling sanctions are removed will a genuinely progressive mass opposition to Saddam be likely.

A new set of proposals for modifying the sanctions regime was launched by the UK, with US backing, in May 2001.

These sanctions might include a reprimand from the class teacher, missing a break time or being sent to the Headteacher.

Continuity and Change in the Sanctions Regime In April 1991 the UNSC adopted res.

Iraq had a right to impose sanctions too, you know.

The US would use its power of veto to block any proposal to lift the sanctions in the UN Security Council.

Without such authorization, the flight would have violated UN sanctions.

The ship sank on November 11 after being boarded by a US team enforcing UN sanctions.

However, Britain and the US have dismissed a Russian draft resolution to suspend sanctions altogether as unacceptable.

It also would provide less flexibility for the president to waive sanctions for national security reasons.

Saddam meetings Galloway, who was a vocal critic of UN sanctions against Iraq, met Saddam during visits to Baghdad in the 1990s.

New Zealand also advocates the use of smart sanctions.

The Iraqi dictator has been on the receiving end of punitive sanctions for ten years now.

This case demonstrated that unwarranted demotion and disciplinary sanctions would amount to constructive dismissal should the employe resign.

The ICBL calls on all States Parties to enact such legislation quickly, including imposing penal sanctions for treaty violations.

Baghdad is under United Nations ' trade sanctions following its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Despite the sanctions, Saddam continued to impose " unspeakable terror and evil " on his own people.

Osama bin Laden himself mentioned the Iraq sanctions in a recent tirade against the United States.

In the early days of the sanctions, dual use items included everything from baking soda to truck tires.

And so my own sense is that sanctions, even the " smartest " sanctions, will continue to exact an appalling human toll.

The occupiers have proved unable to achieve even the reconstruction to the level achieved by the Ba'athist regime under sanctions and episodic bombing.

At a very early age he entertained an exalted idea of his own divine authority, and his studies were largely devoted to searching in the Scriptures and the Slavonic chronicles for sanctions and precedents for the exercise and development of his right divine.

Continued agitation to this effect resulted in an agreement in 452 B.C. between patricians and plebeians that decemvirs should be appointed to draw up a code, that during their tenure of office all other magistracies should be in abeyance, that they should not be subject to appeal, but that they should be bound to maintain the laws which guaranteed by religious sanctions the rights of the plebs.

Though their full style as proclaimed by the herald is "most high, potent and noble prince," and they are included in the Almanach de Gotha, they are not recognized as the equals in blood of the crowned or mediatized dukes of the continent, and the daughter of an English duke marrying a foreign royal prince can only take his title by courtesy, or where, under the "house-laws" of certain families, a family council sanctions the match.

It was from Helvetius that he learnt that, men being universally and solely governed by self-love, the so-called moral judgments are really the common judgments of any society as to its common interests; that it is therefore futile on the one hand to propose any standard of virtue, except that of conduciveness to general happiness, and on the other hand useless merely to lecture men on duty and scold them for vice; that the moralist's proper function is rather to exhibit the coincidence of virtue with private happiness; that, accordingly, though nature has bound men's interests together in many ways, and education by developing sympathy and the habit of mutual help may much extend the connexion, still the most effective moralist is the legislator, who by acting on self-love through legal sanctions may mould human conduct as he chooses.

Are you looking already into punitive measures like sanctions?

Continuity and Change in the Sanctions Regime In April 1991 the UNSC adopted Res.

The MHSAA sanctions junior high and high school competitions in sports and in fine arts in the state of Mississippi.