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Entering a society primarily shaped by these European interests, black women were emancipated from slavery into legally sanctioned inequality.
Clearly, the state now both sanctioned murder and offered absolution from guilt for the perpetrators.
The idea that covenant marriage ought to be sanctioned by the state is illiberal, reprehensible and abhorrent.
The putsch was rounded off by the Turkish constitutional court which sanctioned the action of the military and banned Refah.
Gays who were once considered deviants can now benefit from the security of legally sanctioned marriages.
It was already mentioned that the convertibility law sanctioned the validity of monetary contracts denominated in any currency.
We cannot function as a country if there is politically and legally sanctioned preferment for one group.
However, the ease with which a women can contract sexual liaisons does not directly translate into a socially sanctioned pregnancy and birth.
Although many incest statutes apply only to consanguineous relationships, some apply to all legally sanctioned parent-child relationships.
Equally, I do not condone the supply of arms to such regimes, sanctioned by our own successive governments.
Housing loans, car loans and education loans would also be sanctioned at huge concessions in interest rates and hassle-free documentation.
The continent's rich linguistic diversity has been poorly explored, developed, and sanctioned.
Property represented a problem for medieval economic thinkers because both scripture and natural law sanctioned the community of goods.
In the late 1990s, the government sanctioned several private colleges that emphasized business curricula.
By Wroth's day, such Petrarchan sonnets would have been considered standard, established, sanctioned, and, primarily, conservative.
Seldom in peacetime has a British government sanctioned such a rate of expenditure increase.
The security measures sanctioned by the state serve only to widen the chasm between the powerful and powerless.
This subsidization of drug companies by the taxpayers became officially sanctioned by Congress in 1980, when the Bayh-Dole Act was passed.
He has strong-armed the media, intimidated opponents and sanctioned massive extrajudicial killings of supposed drug dealers.
It therefore has no need of state sanctioned blessing, or indeed of any public form of celebration.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This is a kind of cicisbeism, recognised and regulated by customary law, and sanctioned by a definite ceremony.
Its publication we may be sure would never have been sanctioned by Johnson.
Isabel knew that his secularization had been sanctioned by The Higher Court.
Thus, at the time of lemen's arrival, slavery had been sanctioned on the Illinois prairies for sixty-seven years.
By virtue of the exchange sanctioned by the treaty of 1839, the ceded portion of Limburg became a state of the confederation.
Such a mode of payment as was now proposed ought to be sanctioned only upon the maturest deliberation.
She had no idea of settling down into a commonplace engagement, sanctioned or unsanctioned.
At heart she was a nonvoting Garrisonian abolitionist and would not support a political party which in any way sanctioned slavery.
Some of the most flagrant of these, if not encouraged, have at least been sanctioned by the whites.
If his accession had seemed even a likely thing at the time, it would not have been sanctioned.
They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them.
It's people who have been sanctioned for the flimsiest of reasons or switched to other benefits to cut the dole figures.
Ahasuerus had just sanctioned a senseless, bloodthirsty decree.
How could anything that was wrong be sanctioned by the gods?
The high point of the whole shebang is a sanctioned coon-dog treeing contest and bench show.
After a long interval, Miss Ladd returned to the drawing-room, and announced that she had sanctioned the engagement of Mrs.
Penalties of this high-handedness were not sanctioned by law.
Legal changes had recently allowed sanctioned celebrants other than clergymen or registrars to conduct weddings.
These and many other adaptations of a like sort the lawgiver sanctioned.
That God sanctioned the practice, and is himself a polygamist.
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