Sanctioned is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SANCTIONED in dictionary:

VERB:
• SANCTION, to authorize
NOUN:
• measures taken by a state to coerce another to conform to an international agreement or norms of conduct, typically in the form of restrictions on trade or official sporting participation
• a consideration operating to enforce obedience to any rule of conduct.
• official confirmation or ratification of a law.
• a law or decree, especially an ecclesiastical decree.
• a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule
• official permission or approval for an action
• give official permission or approval for (an action)
• impose a sanction or penalty on
ADJECTIVE:
• conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
• formally approved and invested with legal authority
• established by authority; given authoritative approval

Words related to SANCTIONED

sanction10 sanctioning14 sanctions11

Words that contain SANCTIONED

unsanctioned15

How to use SANCTIONED in a sentence

• In that year, too, as many as 906 separate dog shows were sanctioned by the Kennel Club and held in various parts of the United Kingdom.
• It is enough that an inequality would be sanctioned hostile to the institutions of the United States and inconsistent with the Constitution and the laws.
• Our past history forbids that we shall in the future acquire territory unless this be sanctioned by the laws of justice and honor.
• But the laws of habit are considered to be those which without any written law, antiquity has sanctioned by the common consent of all men.
• I refer you to the documents before alluded to for my own views on this topic, sanctioned fully by the legislature.
• Immorality, now consecrated as a principle, is far more pernicious than when, though practised, it was condemned, and, though suffered, not sanctioned.
• Johnson has here given, and which, in many instances, have been subsequently sanctioned by legislative authority, seem to establish the remark.
• So hard is it to give up illusions sanctioned by family feeling, illusions that have grown with our growth, that Eve had doubted Eugene de Rastignac.
• This doctrine has been, in a certain degree, sanctioned by the federal executive.
• The opinions I have here given, are those which have generally been sanctioned by our government.
• The Trojans have violated a truce sanctioned by a solemn sacrifice to the gods.
• Early in the session 120,000 men were voted for the navy, and an increase of the yeomanry and militia was sanctioned.
• He sanctioned the visits and was on most friendly terms with the discarded suitor.
• He had no other work, and the highly-placed persons, young and old, the Tsar and those near him, not only sanctioned his occupation but praised and thanked him for it.
• These dates are mostly sanctioned by the authority of Professor Willis.
• Advice, sanctioned by the approbation of the General, took the form of a command.
• The treaty of peace sanctioned by the other powers will assure the dominion of Spain.
• Public opinion, he said, has always sanctioned in governments the use of a different morality from that binding on individuals.
• Clay had been recently defending Burr before a Kentucky court, entirely believing that his designs were lawful and sanctioned.
• A treaty of commerce and navigation with Belgium was concluded and signed at Washington on the 29th of March, 1840, and was duly sanctioned by the Senate of the United States.
• The system, although sanctioned by the experience of other countries, was entirely new in the United States, and is susceptible of improvement in some of its provisions.
• The right to levy contributions upon the enemy in the form of import and export duties in his ports was sanctioned by the treaty of peace with Mexico.
• This local custom, sanctioned by usage from time immemorial, is without appeal.
• Such were the principles that guided, and the authority that sanctioned, these regulations.
• They could not be enforced, but were sanctioned by Parliament in 1621.
• If they are destructive to the health of the inferior agents, or to the morality of any of the persons concerned in them, they can never be sanctioned by Christianity.
• It was many years ago sanctioned apparently for a purpose regarded as temporary and related to a survey of our coast.
• This is the regulation and law of American Slavery, as sanctioned by the Government of the United States, and without which it could not exist.

Similar words containing SANCTION without suffix ed

sanction10 sanctions11 sanctioner12 sanctioneer13 sanctioners13 sanctioning14 sanctionable16 sanctioneers14 sanctionless14 unsanctioned15 sanctionings15

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