sanction

We used to sanction treating people as property.

"We used to sanction treating people as property.

Or is referring to more of a "the judge will be annoyed at you" kind of sanction?

A nurse wouldn't sanction ice chips without the admitting physician's chop.

We don't now. We used to sanction discrimination.

Compared to that sanction, independent auditors are a band-aid.

It just can't happen without official sanction first, before a local bitcoin market has established itself.

I was amazed by this sentence in the C&D:"Massachusetts law does not sanction unapproved devices for use in commercial transactions.

While that would reduce violent crime, it would also sanction people using recreational drugs besides alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine.

It simply was not ready to give sanction to a clever interpretation of law that would have undercut the very fundamentals of why the law existed in the first place.

As Ryan validated above, I can guarantee you anyone who has any authority at all at github did not encourage or sanction this behavior.

The reason is because I think that anyone whose job it is to murder, maim, kill - officially, with sanction from the state - and who chooses to do this as a career is a very, very sick individual.

Commercial exploiters of new technologies should be required to convince Congress to sanction a new delivery system and/or exempt it from copyright liability.

The fact that the banks are playing this card - which entails admitting that their lender verification and risk-management standards are utterly worthless - indicates that they feel perfectly safe in making what should be deeply incriminating remarks with absolutely no fear of sanction.

Courts hold a dim opinion of jury nullification, going so far as to legally sanction mentions of it in a courtroom, and to provide "instructions" to the jury that try to expressly prohibit them from considering anything other than whether the facts of the case meet the law as explained to them.

"Harmless" records of yourself enjoying alcohol, common recreational drugs, listening to certain brands of music, interacting with currently-legitimate political parties or activist groups -- all could one day be held against you and be found as grounds to have authorities and/or the wider community harass, arrest or otherwise sanction you.