Sanctions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SANCTIONS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SANCTION, to authorize
• give official permission or approval for (an action)
• impose a sanction or penalty on
NOUN:
• a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule
• 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 permission or approval for an action
• official confirmation or ratification of a law.
• a law or decree, especially an ecclesiastical decree.

Words related to SANCTIONS

sanction10 sanctioned13 sanctioning14

How to use SANCTIONS in a sentence

• But a distinction must be drawn between military sanctions meant to guarantee peace and those which have the end of ruining the enemy.
• In the South, society was largely established under the sanctions of royalty.
• It is only one of our sanctions of conduct, and a very crude one at that.
• From them and from his fellow-citizens in general he desires only that aid and support which their reason approves and their conscience sanctions.
• On them morality of any kind has no hold but through the external sanctions.
• But after all, it may be said, our fathers were certainly mistaken, for the Bible sanctions Slavery, and that is the highest authority.
• Policy has a strategic duty to perform, since it sanctions preparations for war and defines their limit.
• In the first place, society sanctions the slavery of a wife, but she does not conceive even the wish to be free, for she feels herself weak, timid and ignorant.
• Member nations of the United Nations generally apply this same three-step plan that ends in economic sanctions being applied by the United Nations as a whole.
• The removal of imaginary sanctions will but cause the true ones to appear more clearly and to work more effectively.
• From correspondence between him and this woman it appears that he fully sanctions her mode of life.
• Now, we hold it a libel on the Bible to affirm that it sanctions such slavery.
• Piercing below all conventionalisms, it recognizes man as an individual soul, and, as such, addresses him with its truths and its sanctions.
• As enforced by the Bible and the Church, the religious sanctions of conduct are two, which I shall call the higher and the lower sanctions.
• Now, as to California and New Mexico, I hold slavery to be excluded from those territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas.
• He does not dwell upon the sanctions of morality, so as to distinguish the legal sanction from the popular sanction.
• He recognizes religion as furnishing one of the Sanctions of morality, although often perverted into the enemy of utility.
• Utility has, or might have, all the sanctions attaching to any other system of morals.
• Thus, apart from external sanctions, the ultimate sanction, under Utility, is the same as for other standards, namely, the conscientious feelings of mankind.
• The universal law sanctions and the common good requires the existence of such a rule.
• First with the tendency to organize it in communities or churches, living under special sanctions and rules.
• Master and slave are the subjects of that government, bound by its immutable requirements, and liable to its sanctions in the next world, though enjoying its forbearance in this.
• Society, which delights in looking behind appearances, sanctions much as soon as it knows the secrets they conceal.
• The family, with its civil and ecclesiastical sanctions, was formed to protect the personal lives of men and women who wished to live together and rear children.
• The whole has been done under the auspices, and is confirmed by the sanctions, of religion and piety.
• Its duties cannot be dispensed with, and the sanctions of religion are added to the obligations of immemorial usage.

Similar words containing SANCTION without suffix s

sanction10 sanctioned13 sanctioner12 sanctioneer13 sanctioners13 sanctioning14 sanctionable16 sanctioneers14 sanctionless14 unsanctioned15 sanctionings15

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