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vt.
（sanctioned; sancetioned; sanctioning）
1.认可；批准
2.赞许；支持；鼓励
3.对……实施制裁
n.
（复）sanctions
1. 认可；批准
2.赞许；支持；鼓励
3.国际制裁
4.（为保证法律得到遵守的）奖惩附加条款
5.（道德的）约束力

pragmatic sanction
国事诏书

The church would not sanction his second marriage.
教会不会认可他的第二次婚姻。
They refused to sanction segregation.
他们拒绝支持种族隔离。
Official sanction has not yet been given.
尚未获得正式批准。
There is no sanction for autocracy.
没有人赞成独裁统治。
The UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq.
联合国对伊拉克实施经济制裁。

general sanction mandatory sanction pragmatic sanction sanction measure voluntary sanction give sanction to suffer the last sanction of the law financial sanction political sanction criminal sanction compulsory sanction disciplinary sanction civil sanction cultural sanction penal sanction military sanction punitive sanction