Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the Ivy League presidents decided not to sanction the overseas excursion in 1988, William & Mary was invited instead. The Americans were impolite guests, blasting their Japanese opponents...
Neither Harvard nor the league has changed its position this year, said Harvard Associate Athletic Director Patricia Miller. "Basically, this is entirely outside the league," Miller said. "There's been nothing generated internally. There's no Ivy sanction. It's all been externally driven...
...promoters decided to go ahead with their original plan anyway, without Ivy sanction. IGM contacted the invitees days after the Crimson's season-ending 37-20 victory over Yale...
...harm you are doing by espousing the 'pro-choice' view will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special election for California's state senate. He then applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her position. She is the first political candidate to receive this censure...
Even if we exempt ROTC from this particular policy, saying it applies only to "social organizations," shouldn't Harvard be encouraging the "time-to-time" campus activity of other political or governmental groups? If Harvard students are involved, should we fail to officially sanction the voices of the Ku Klux Klan, of neo-Nazi groups, of McCarthy-like Communist scares? The answer to these questions is obvious. No! We cannot allow this type of behavior to be expressed on our campus. It is a direct attack on the human dignity accorded to all members of the Harvard community...