Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first importance not only to have proper procedures established but also that there should be appropriate sanctions to make these procedures effective ... The most effective sanction in the long run would be a provision which would relieve the witness from any obligation to testify ... when the procedures are not followed...
Once such technicalities have been arranged the final seating plan will go once and for all to the Faculty Committee on Athletics for official sanction...
...What many a hospital patient has known for many years, that the bedpan is more trouble than it's worth, won official medical sanction. "It requires twice as much energy to use it as it does to walk to the bathroom," said Manhattan's Dr. Howard A. Rusk, rehabilitation expert. Also, taking a shower consumes four times as much energy as using...
...recognition only sanctions the group's legitimate activities. Since any so-called "scouting" would be done secretly, the question of recognition is unimportant here. Official sanction is wanted to lend emphasis to the club's statements. The aegis of the Harvard Conservative League is far more newsworthy outside the University than an individual's name...
...nation, their desertion, in time of trial, of scholars and teachers whom, through years of association, they had found worthy of trust, is one of the most disastrous actions in the history of American education. What the letter really means can be most clearly seen in the sanction which it gives to actions such as this. And what those actions mean is revealed by the rising tide of political and social repression which now threatens the foundations of our national life.ZECHARIAH CHAFEE...